Wirewood Channeler
Creature — Elf Druid
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $1.16
- EDHREC rank
- #3514
Wirewood Channeler taps for one green mana per Elf you control, which in a developed board means it's producing four, six, or eight mana off a single activation — numbers that make Staff of Domination go infinite without a second thought. The cost is that it needs other Elves to do anything useful, so it's a dead card in an empty-board situation, but Ezuri, Renegade Leader decks almost never have an empty board by the time this lands.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ezuri, Renegade Leader
Ezuri, Renegade Leader runs Wirewood Channeler because the Channeler's mana output scales directly with the Elf count Ezuri is already building toward, and a wide board means the Channeler can single-handedly fund Ezuri's Overrun ability multiple times in a turn.
Tyvar the Bellicose
Tyvar the Bellicose lets Elves tap for mana on the turn they enter, so Wirewood Channeler can contribute immediately rather than waiting a full rotation — that haste-equivalent effect turns the Channeler into a same-turn mana accelerant the moment it resolves.
Lathril, Blade of the Elves
Lathril, Blade of the Elves wants to tap ten Elves for her drain ability, and Wirewood Channeler gives the deck a way to convert that same board presence into the mana needed to keep the engine moving after she fires.
Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
Dionus, Elvish Archdruid rewards stacking Elves with high-power payoffs, and Wirewood Channeler feeds that plan by converting a wide board into the mana necessary to cast and replay threats every turn.
Marwyn, the Nurturer
Marwyn, the Nurturer is the other major Elf-mana engine in Commander, and Wirewood Channeler pairs with her as redundancy — together they give the deck two independent ways to convert an Elf count into explosive mana before opponents can answer both.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the format Wirewood Channeler was built for: games go long enough to assemble Elf boards, and the infinite-mana combos it enables are legal and prevalent. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically playable but ignored — Elf decks in those formats lean on Quirion Ranger and Priest of Titania lines that are faster and more resilient under disruption-heavy metas. Oathbreaker gives it a small second home in green Elf shells, where the 20-life format and lower starting pressure let the Channeler's build-up plan come online more reliably. Outside those formats it's not legal, and it wouldn't be competitive if it were.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Staff of DominationWirewood Channeler
Infinite card draw; Infinite colored mana; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Umbral MantleWirewood Channeler
Infinite colored mana; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
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Sword of the ParunsWirewood Channeler
Infinite colored mana; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Ashaya, Soul of the WildScryb RangerWirewood Channeler
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite storm count; Infinite landfall triggers
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Aggravated AssaultWirewood Channeler
Infinite colored mana; Infinite combat phases; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
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Current price
$1.16 cheap tier
At $1.16, Wirewood Channeler sits at budget-staple pricing for a card that enables infinite-mana lines in one of Commander's most popular tribal archetypes. That price is unlikely to climb unless a high-profile Elf commander enters the format, but it's cheap enough that there's no reason to hesitate on picking one up.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.