Wildwood Escort
Creature — Elf Warrior
When this creature enters, return target creature or battle card from your graveyard to your hand.
If this creature would die, exile it instead.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #22991
Wildwood Escort puts a 3/3 vigilance body on the battlefield for three mana and trades up for a creature with a higher converted mana cost when it dies — solid rate, real upside. It's a role-player in go-wide or sacrifice strategies, not a staple, but it earns its slot when the payoff creature costs four or more.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wildwood Escort is a Commander card through and through — the death-trigger replacement effect scales with expensive bombs you're already trying to cheat into play, and 100-card singleton gives you enough high-CMC targets to make that consistent. In Pauper it's legal but competes with more efficient common creatures that don't require a death to trigger value. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer have no interest in a three-mana 3/3 whose upside requires it to die on your schedule. Commander is the one format where Wildwood Escort does exactly what you want it to do.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Wildwood Escort sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it out of a commons box rather than paying shipping for a single copy. Bulk creatures with niche ETB or death triggers rarely climb in price unless a commander breaks them, so don't expect appreciation, just grab it when you need it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.