Vintara Elephant
Creature — Elephant
Trample
: This creature loses trample until end of turn. Any player may activate this ability.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #30644
Vintara Elephant is a 3/3 for four mana that can gain shroud at the cost of untapping your lands — a meaningful protection ability that comes with a real opportunity-cost attached. It's a fringe roleplayer at best, outclassed in nearly every format by cheaper or more resilient options.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Vintara Elephant sees almost no play — a vanilla-statted four-drop needs a compelling ability to earn a slot, and the shroud activation here is too mana-intensive to matter in a format where removal is a solved problem and better hexproof creatures exist at lower costs. In Pauper, the common card pool is more forgiving of modest bodies, but Vintara Elephant still doesn't crack competitive lists where green's four-mana slot is contested by more impactful threats. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the card simply doesn't compete at those power levels.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Vintara Elephant is deep bulk — the kind of card that stays in penny boxes indefinitely. There's no meaningful demand driver that would push this off the floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.