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Wakeroot Elemental

Creature — Elemental

{G}{G}{G}{G}{G}: Untap target land you control. It becomes a 5/5 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land. (This effect lasts as long as that land remains on the battlefield.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Core Set 2020 Promos
Price
$0.40
EDHREC rank
#18828
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Wakeroot Elemental card art
Wakeroot Elemental turns every Forest into a mana engine and a threat simultaneously — tap five lands, untap five lands, repeat until you've cast your entire hand or assembled a combo. The cost is real: seven mana for a 5/5 that does nothing the turn it enters is a hard sell in most green shells, but in Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence decks it becomes the engine that ends games on the spot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Wakeroot Elemental is a Commander card through and through — the singleton format rewards its high ceiling and forgives its high cost, and the combos it enables are best exploited in a 100-card deck built around the line. In Modern and Legacy it's strictly unplayable; seven mana for a 5/5 with no immediate impact gets laughed off the table in formats where games end on turn three. Pioneer is the same story. Commander is where Wakeroot Elemental actually functions, specifically in mono-green or heavy-green lists that can reliably hit seven mana and have a payoff for generating exponential mana mid-combat or at sorcery speed.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

81 decks
Wakeroot ElementalCastle GarenbrigNyxbloom Ancient

Wakeroot ElementalCastle GarenbrigNyxbloom Ancient

Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite green mana that can only be spent to activate abilities of creatures; Infinite green mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.40 bulk tier

At $0.40, Wakeroot Elemental is deep bulk — the price reflects its narrow demand rather than any flaw in its combo ceiling. It's unlikely to spike without a new combo partner printing, but at this price there's no reason not to own a copy if you're building any deck that wants it.

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