Willow Elf
Creature — Elf
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Starter 2000
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #27048
Willow Elf is a 1/1 for one green mana that taps for one green mana — a Llanowar Elves with a different name and identical function. There are no decks where Willow Elf is the right choice over its functional twins, and no angle that makes it worth tracking down specifically.
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 |
Willow Elf is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Pauper, one-mana green dorks are genuinely played, but Llanowar Elves and Elvish Mystic are strictly identical and far easier to acquire. In Commander, Willow Elf competes in a slot where you're already running Fyndhorn Elves, Birds of Paradise, and Arcane Signet — it makes the cut only if you're building an Elf tribal deck that wants every legal copy of this effect, and even then it's filling out the bottom of the list. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Willow Elf sits in bulk territory, which is exactly where it belongs. The price won't move — there's no demand driver that would separate it from the pile of functionally identical one-mana green dorks.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.