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Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination

Creature — Werewolf Horror // Creature — Eldrazi Werewolf

Defender
{T}: Add {G}.
{5}{G}{G}: Transform this creature.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Eldritch Moon
Price
$0.18
EDHREC rank
#13884
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Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination card art
Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination flips into a 4/6 Trample that taps for two mana of any color — a mana rock stapled to a body in creature-dense green strategies. The front face is a slow transformer that costs four mana to flip, which is the real price of admission; commanders like Tovolar, Dire Overlord and Marvin, Murderous Mimic reward the Wolf/Werewolf tribal payoff enough to justify that tempo hit.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Tovolar, Dire Overlord

19.2% of decks · synergy 0.18

Tovolar, Dire Overlord counts every Wolf and Werewolf for its damage-triggered draw ability, so Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination pulls double duty: it feeds the creature count before flipping and turns into a mana-fixing engine that funds the rest of the curve once transformed.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination is a tribal role-player — it earns a slot in Werewolf builds where creature count matters more than raw efficiency, and the back face's two-mana rock on a 4/6 body is legitimate late-game utility. Outside Commander, it's legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Pauper, but it sees essentially no competitive play in any of them — a four-mana flip cost is catastrophic in faster formats where dedicated ramp and cheaper creatures are abundant. Pauper is its most plausible non-Commander home, where creature-based mana fixing is occasionally worth the slot, but even there it faces stiff competition.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.18 bulk tier

At $0.18, Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination is deep bulk — pick it up freely without a second thought on cost. Bulk rares with narrow tribal applications rarely climb in price, so treat this as a zero-budget inclusion rather than a spec.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.