The 55 Best Elves in Magic Ranked

Last updated on February 13, 2026

Llanowar Tribe | Illustration by Scott Murphy

Of all the magical creature in Magic, elves may be the most iconic, right up there with merfolk and goblins. They’ve always been part of the game, often helping aspiring green players produce extra mana to push ahead of their opponents.

They have some of the strongest typal synergies in the game, with elfball decks capable of casting 10 spells in a single turn and hurling a Craterhoof Behemoth at unsuspecting players to close things out. But the tribe has more going for it than Llanowar Elves, so let’s rank the best elves in Magic!

What Are Elves in MTG?

Galadhrim Ambush | Illustration by John Di Giovanni

Elves are cards with the elf subtype, as indicated in the type box in the center of the card. Most elves are creatures, although there are some instants, sorceries, and even enchantments with the elf kindred supertype. Cards that care about you casting or controlling elves see these cards as elves and count them if applicable.

Elves have been part of Magic since the game began with Alpha. There are elves in every color, but they’re mostly in green. Elves are the predominant creature used to represent green’s color identity of harmony with nature and abundant growth, which gets reflected in the type’s mechanical identity that often produces mana and makes your elves better when you have more elves.

#55. Essence Warden

Essence Warden is an unassuming card that can snowball out of control. It's a color-shifted Soul Warden that’s great for green decks trying to get some life. One life for each creature adds up quickly.

It can be great for a tokens deck trying to gain life to stabilize or to set up cards like Ajani's Pridemate and Ezzaroot Channeler.

#54. Yeva, Nature’s Herald

Who plays their creatures in their main phase? Yeva, Nature's Herald is basically Prophet of Kruphix if you squint and ignore half of the former’s card text.

Jokes aside, this is really good. It’s a good defensive piece because it’s hard to swing into Yeva and a bunch of open mana without knowing what it represents. It also gives far more flexibility to answers like Reclamation Sage and Kogla, the Titan Ape.

Throw in a Seedborn Muse and you have a massive threat.

#53. Alisaie Leveilleur + Alphinaud Leveilleur

These two elf wizard brothers are from Final Fantasy XIV, and surprisingly neither of them is green. They’re an interesting commander pair that takes you in a totally different direction, since they capitalize on casting two spells a turn, triggering flurry, and much more. Alisaie Leveilleur is an enabler for the strategy, while Alphinaud Leveilleur is the payoff.

#52. Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea

Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea is a great tool for decks trying to ramp put massive creatures. You get 2 mana toward your next creature and the color fixing is invaluable. Adding 2 mana in a combination of colors enables lots of multicolor cards like Omnath, Locus of All, and Niv-Mizzet Reborn which would be far harder to use otherwise.

Casting big creatures also grows this, combating the general weakness of mana dorks becoming irrelevant later in the game.

#51. Arwen, Weaver of Hope

Free +1/+1 counters are always welcome, and Arwen, Weaver of Hope bolsters all your other creatures for free. Arwen is a great version of this effect; three mana is cheap enough that you'll have most of your hand to follow it up with.

Unlike other cards with this effect like Renata, Called to the Hunt and Good-Fortune Unicorn, you can add counters to Arwen so your board scales in kind.

#50. Belbe, Corrupted Observer

Belbe, Corrupted Observer is a fantastic Commander card; it just represents so much mana production.

Playing a card like Thornbow Archer or Mardu Shadowspear lets you play Belbe and produce 6 colorless mana on turn 2 to accelerate into fun stax pieces like God-Pharaoh's Statue and Ward of Bones before your opponents can blink!

#49. Rashmi, Eternities Crafter

I have a soft spot for Rashmi, Eternities Crafter as my first commander. It's a bit restrictive since the ability only triggers once a turn, but a powerful value engine in a deck that triggers it on your opponent’s turns.

You can manipulate the top of your deck with cards like Worldly Tutor and Mystical Tutor, so Rashmi's ability doesn’t just draw a card, but spells like Mystic Confluence and Torrential Gearhulk replacing themselves on your opponent’s turn is often plenty of value.

#48. Ayara, First of Locthwain

Ayara, First of Locthwain is an excellent aritsocrats card in black-heavy decks. The slow drain from the ETB adds up, especially if you’re producing tokens with cards like Bitterblossom.

A free sacrifice outlet that draws cards is something every aristocrats deck is happy to have.

#47. Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer

Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer has proven itself a powerful commander for stax and combo decks. Having Chord of Calling in the command zone whenever you need it is incredibly strong, especially once you start bouncing it with Wirewood Symbiote.

Naya () is the perfect color combination for all sorts of creature-based combos with cards like Devoted Druid and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker. This is a solid value card even outside the command zone.

#46. Galadriel, Light of Valinor

Lady Galadriel is a Bant commander () that offers you three distinct things when a creature enters the battlefield. You can either get 3 mana, buff your team, or get card advantage. Galadriel, Light of Valinor is limited to three triggers per turn, but if you can trigger one or two reliably, it’s already very good.

#45. Accomplished Alchemist

Lifegain decks love Accomplished Alchemist as a massive mana dork. Four mana is a lot for a creature tapping for mana, but this makes up for it by tapping for lots of mana.

A deck with a strong lifegain engine taps this for 5 or more mana, sometimes doubling your initial investment.

#44. Underrealm Lich

I’ve loved Underrealm Lich since it came out. It’s great card selection and helps any deck using its graveyard fill it quickly while getting the best card of the top three. This effect is like dredging, but you still get a card without a discard outlet.

The indestructible ability is the icing on the cake, making this card advantage engine difficult to remove. You can’t even deck yourself since this is a replacement effect for drawing cards.

#43. Silhana Ledgewalker

While Silhana Ledgewalker is an unassuming card, this little elf enables Bogles decks from Modern to Pauper. Once you suit this pseudo-flying creature up with an Ethereal Armor and Ancestral Mask, your opponents find themselves facing down a massive, unblockable, untargetable creature that grinds them into the ground.

#42. Glistener Elf

Glistener Elf is a key component of any deck seriously trying to win through poison counters. It might not be as strong as Blighted Agent, but playing this on turn 1 into two Might of Old Krosas and a Mutagenic Growth have enabled many a turn-2 kill, and it’s solid even without the nuts.

#41. Elvish Piper

Who doesn’t love a 1-mana Sundering Titan?

Elvish Piper could be fantastic if it wasn’t so slow and fragile. This card doesn’t exist on its own. You aren’t playing it for anything but its ability, essentially making it a fragile enchantment. But a haste enabler or some protective elements can go a long way to making this an invaluable piece for a big creature deck.

#40. Evolution Sage

Evolution Sage boasts a powerful, if narrow effect. This great proliferate card is fantastic in superfriends or counter decks that want to double up on their value whenever lands hit the battlefield. It’s also great for poison decks, especially in Commander, since infect makes you public enemy #1.

Decks that can maximize this effect want it badly.

#39. Elvish Archivist

Taking elves in a different direction, Elvish Archivist cares about artifacts and enchantments being played. It’s only a 0/1 without synergies, but it isn’t hard to turn it into a 2/3 or bigger that starts drawing you cards. Sometimes you can’t have both, but this card is flexible enough to go into a variety of decks.

#38. Nadier’s Nightblade

Token decks usually need something to go the extra mile and help close out the game. Nadier's Nightblade is here for those decks.

This isn’t just a Blood Artist for creature tokens, but any tokens, most notably Treasures. This is fantastic in decks that make loads of Treasure with cards like Bootleggers' Stash or Ancient Copper Dragon.

#37. Tyvar the Bellicose

Tyvar the Bellicose is an interesting card for its second ability more so than the first. Giving your elves deathtouch enables aggression, but making your mana dorks big has potential. Cheap cards like Llanowar Elves can accelerate you early and then become decent threats later.

It’s also incredibly effective with mana dorks that produce mana based on their power like Gyre Sage and, like any card that distributes counters, this pairs nicely with Devoted Druid.

#36. Dionus, Elvish Archdruid

Dionus, Elvish Archdruid warrants a mention considering how easy it is to tap elves, be it with cards like Heritage Druid or with something like Cryptolith Rite. Here, you’re further enabling combos and strengthening some elves. And of course, the biggest application is to attack with everyone, untap your creatures, and spread the +1/+1 counters around.

#35. Elvish Reclaimer

Have you ever wished you had Strip Mine, Gaea's Cradle, or Dark Depths when you needed it? Elvish Reclaimer is here to get it for you.

It’s fantastic in decks that care about lands, turning basics into combo pieces or value lands, or helping to fill your graveyard for cards like The Gitrog Monster or Titania, Protector of Argoth.

#34. Fauna Shaman

Survival of the Fittest is a messed up card, and Fauna Shaman gives you much of the same flexibility. Being a creature beholden to removal and summoning sickness makes this weaker than the enchantment but it’s far more accessible and is still great for decks that want a repeatable tutor or a way to keep throwing creatures in the graveyard.

#33. Evolution Witness

Eternal Witness isn’t on this list because it’s not an elf, but can I interest you in Evolution Witness? It’s worse as a 2/1 without an ETB, but once you get your +1/+1 counter engine going, you can recur a big chunk of your graveyard. After all, why stop at only one card? It’s a 5-mana 4/3 that gets you a card back, at the very least.

#32. Rhys, the Evermore

Rhys, the Evermore would be just fine if it gave a creature indestructible with its flash effect. But it’s actually a little better with persist. MTG these days has too many ETB creatures and synergies with enter/leaving the battlefield. And if counters (finality, -1/-1, stun counters) are a problem, Rhys can take them away. Which also works well with cards like Moonshadow, or with Dark Depths and earthbend/awaken.  

#31. Twilight Diviner

Twilight Diviner is a strong card if you’re into the value reanimate path, offering you a free token each time a creature comes back from the graveyard. This gives you a lot of value with mechanics like persist and unearth. It’s just once per turn, but you’ll get some value, regardless. Commanders like Muldrotha, the Gravetide or Meren of Clan Nel Toth should appreciate this card.

#30. Rhys the Redeemed

Three mana for a 1/1 is a terrible rate. Six mana to copy all your tokens? Much more reasonable.

Rhys the Redeemed is fantastic top-end for a tokens deck. Cards like Trostani's Summoner and Bestial Menace love this card since they already make tons of tokens. Ways to copy this trigger like Rings of Brighthearth are the final pieces of this puzzle that drowns your opponents beneath token armies.

#29. Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Lonis, Cryptozoologist gives you something to do with Clue tokens – besides drawing cards, of course. There’s nothing wrong with paying 2 mana and sacrificing a clue to get a card, but sometimes you have a lot of them, so Lonis offers you a big tempo swing.

You sac some clues to get a mini Bribery effect. Then, there are many cards that give you a benefit when you sacrifice a clue, like Tireless Tracker, so you should consider playing these alongside Lonis.

#28. Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Everybody likes drawing cards, right? Edric, Spymaster of Trest gives everybody a chance at extra cards if they don’t attack you.

Edric is a fantastic commander for those who enjoy the political aspect of EDH, convincing your opponents to turn their aggression elsewhere as you compile an unblockable army with a Triumph of the Hordes lurking in your hand.

#27. Bloodbraid Elf

Bloodbraid Elf is a long-time staple of Jund () in Standard and even spent a while on the Modern banlist.

This is a simple card. It’s a clean two-for-one, generating 5-7 mana worth of value for 4 mana. There’s a great pleasure that comes from casting this and hitting a Maelstrom Pulse or Lightning Bolt to clear away a blocker before attacking. This pressures planeswalkers and players alike and is great for midrange decks.

#26. Tromell, Seymour's Butler

Tromell, Seymour's Butler’s proliferate X ability is too good to ignore. It’s a nice elf to fit into a +1/+1 counters and proliferate strategy, but unfortunately, the nontoken clause prevents it from being busted in planeswalker or artifact strategies. Better use real creatures like hydras and the like.

#25. Eladamri, Korvecdal

Eladamri, Korvecdal gives you a nice incentive to run a deck packed with creatures. Being able to cast creature cards from the top of your library is already strong, and you can cheat big creatures into play once per turn, and not just from your hand in a clunky way like Elvish Piper does.

#24. Galadhrim Brigade

An elf lord for 3 mana is an okay rate, but it could be better. But how about 5-6 lords in one card? Galadhrim Brigade has the squad mechanic, so you can generate a lot of mana with your elves like Priest of Titania or Marwyn, the Nurturer and drop a bunch of elf lords in a single turn.

#23. Allosaurus Shepherd

Green has multiple ways to protect your spells from countermagic, but Allosaurus Shepherd is among the most efficient and impactful. It can be a win condition for elf decks, but it’s just blanket protection for green-heavy lists.

Spending a measly 1 mana to blank every copy of Counterspell, Force of Will, and Fierce Guardianship in your opponents’ decks is one of the best exchanges you can make.

#22. Tireless Provisioner

Lotus Cobra is great, but what if you could store the mana for future turns? You don’t need to be a landfall deck to exploit this powerful ability. Making Food is underwhelming unless you’re packing a bunch of lifegain, but making a Lotus Petal each time you make a land drop is incredibly broken.

It’s also great in decks that care about making tokens or artifacts for free, like Chatterfang, Squirrel General.

#21. Oracle of Mul Daya

Oracle of Mul Daya offers ramp and card advantage by letting you play lands off the top of your library. It pairs well with cards like Augur of Autumn or Vivien, Monsters' Advocate that lets you play most cards off the top of your library.

The information it gives is also useful; knowing if you want to draw the top card of your library works well with fetch lands and other shuffle effects.

#20. Elvish Spirit Guide

Elvish Spirit Guide is only as good as the cards surrounding it. A 3-mana 2/2 isn’t playable, and going down a card for a single mana is inherently card disadvantage.

But this fast mana is more than worth discarding a card if you can exploit this mana to play something like Chalice of the Void or Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes ahead of schedule.

#19. Formidable Speaker

Formidable Speaker is a nice tutor on a fine creature, an effect that probably would be legit on a 1/1 creature some years ago. It’s an excellent glue card for many strategies: a good target for Birthing Pod, high-toughness, untapping is pseudo-vigilance, ramp, discard for graveyard value/reanimate, blink, the list goes on.

#18. Reclamation Sage

One of the best artifact removal effects in green, Reclamation Sage is a staple in Commander and Cube. It’s a reasonable body with strong card typing and a powerful two-for-one ability. Decks that can flicker this or rebuy it through other means get lots of triggers, blowing up valuable artifacts and enchantments.

Reclamation Sage should be one of the first cards in your green Commander decks.

#17. Marwyn, the Nurturer

Marwyn, the Nurturer has my vote for the best dedicated elfball commander. It’s easy to play this on turn 2. Any 1-mana elf becomes mana neutral with this in play since Marwyn taps for extra mana.

It also plays well with the various lords in the archetype; cards like Elvish Champion and Elvish Archdruid add 2 power and 2 mana when they come into play.

#16. Elvish Archdruid

If there was ever a card to summarize elfball, it would be Elvish Archdruid. It does everything the archetype wants; it gets stronger when you have a bunch of elves, and it makes all those elves stronger while producing tons of mana.

This is an elves classic and staple for a reason.

#15. Ezuri, Renegade Leader + Tyvar, the Pummeler

While these two cards aren’t functional reprints, they’re very similar 3-drops in elf decks, and both can be your commander. Ezuri, Renegade Leader saves other elves from destruction while Tyvar, the Pummeler can save itself, and both have a 5-mana mass pump effect.

#14. Heritage Druid

Heritage Druid is incredible in any deck that can exploit its ability. You need a high concentration of elves, but the mana production comes at a great rate.

This effect pairs well with cards that untap creatures or creatures that untap themselves like Intruder Alarm or Nettle Sentinel.

#14. Llanowar Elves

This slot goes to Llanowar Elves, but also its functional reprints, Elvish Mystic and Fyndhorn Elves. These are staples in most formats they’re in.

Accelerating from turn 1 gives decks an edge over their opponents, and it’s hard to be more efficient than these little guys. They’re especially good in formats with high-impact 3-drops like Oko, Thief of Crowns or Teferi, Time Raveler.

#13. Quirion Ranger

Quirion Ranger is a fantastic ramp piece in decks with mana dorks. It even helps you make land drops; you can float the mana from the Forest you’re planning on bouncing, then replay it as your land for turn.

This card has a lot of little intricacies to its play patterns, and it’s a lot of fun to figure them out.

#12. High Perfect Morcant

High Perfect Morcant is a strong player for best elf commander, or best -1/-1 counters commander, as all its abilities are very nice to build around without feeling overpowered. You’ll want to play elves, of course, which in turn will keep blighting your opponents.. And you can proliferate during your turn with your elves, boosting many different strategies, and weakening your opponent’s creatures even further. 

#11. Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Maralen, Fae Ascendant takes elf decks in another direction entirely. First, you get access to blue and faeries, so this card is also an excellent faerie typal commander. You’re basically stealing cards from the top of their library while making elves and faeries. Here, it’s all about the quantity, so cards like Stolen by the Fae or Galadhrim Ambush are perfect. And just by having your commander and minions around, you get to play some powerful spells for free.

#10. Priest of Titania

Priest of Titania is basically Gaea's Cradle on a stick for elf decks. Ways to untap this like Quirion Ranger make this 2-mana elf spiral out of control.

It easily taps for more than 3 mana on a developed board and is crucial for decks trying to exploit the elf type to its fullest.

#9. Champions of the Perfect

Champions of the Perfect is just a beefed-up Beast Whisperer, one of the most played green creatures in Commander. It has a clear downside, though: you need to behold and exile an elf. Elf decks already played the Whisperer, so you shouldn’t have a problem playing both. A 6/6 naturally survives more combat situations, damage-based sweepers, and removal spells.

#8. Beast Whisperer

What if green got some of the best ramp, creatures, and card draw?

Beast Whisperer is a must-have in any deck with a high creature count. Making all of your creatures replace themselves buries your opponents in card advantage and makes it hard for them to interact with your board. Everything you play becomes a two-for-one, so even a board wipe might not be impactful enough since you’ll have a fresh hand of cards.

#7. Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

A common theme among a lot of the best elves is their ability to tap for obscene amounts of mana, and Selvala, Heart of the Wilds taps for incredible bursts of mana while drawing you cards. Green decks almost always have the biggest creatures, so you don’t need to worry about your opponents drawing too many cards off this mana and card advantage engine.

#6. Bloom Tender

Bloom Tender is narrower than some of the other options here. You only see it in Commander, or in recent Standard decks thanks to the Lorwyn Eclipsed reprint. The potential of a 2-mana dork that taps for 5 mana is obscene.

If you have this in play and cast Jodah, the Unifier or Niv-Mizzet Reborn, this basically doubles your mana for the turn. The ceiling of this card is incredibly high, and you risk basically nothing since it’s only 2 mana.

#5. Circle of Dreams Druid

Circle of Dreams Druid is just Gaea's Cradle on a stick. This lets you combine it with effects that untap your creatures like Dramatic Reversal and Vizier of Tumbling Sands.

It’s more fragile than the Reserved List card, but also infinitely more accessible.

#4. Leovold, Emissary of Trest

The things I would do if Leovold, Emissary of Trest was legal in Commander are unspeakable enough to justify the banning. Leovold is an obscene stax piece that punishes your opponent for trying to draw cards or interact with your board.

The effect is easily exploitable with cards like Timetwister and Wheel of Fortune to Mind Twist your opponents as you refill your hand.

#3. Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary

Another elf deemed too good for Commander, and with good reason. Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary is one of the best payoffs for being in mono-green.

Decks with plenty of forests basically get to enjoy a personal Mana Flare. Playing this on turn 2 into a turn 3 Primeval Titan or Nissa, Who Shakes the World has ended many a game of Vintage Cube before it truly began.

#2. Devoted Druid

I can accept this may be a little high for Devoted Druid, but this is one of the best elves around. It goes infinite in so many ways; Swift Reconfiguration, Vizier of Remedies, Solemnity.

And more combos keep getting printed. Luxior, Giada's Gift or Solid Ground and Experiment Kraj include relatively recent cards that add to the list of spells that make infinite green mana with this Druid. They may be unassuming, but respect should be paid to such a versatile combo piece.

#1. Deathrite Shaman

Deathrite Shaman does need to be in a format with fetch lands to shine, but the 1-mana “planeswalker” feels like a comfortable winner among elves. It does everything I lauded Llanowar Elves for, except better because this fixes your mana.

It’s also graveyard hate that also stabilizes you with life gain or pushes the last points of damage on your opponents, and one of the best shamans in the game in case its creature type is relevant in your deck. It does everything you could hope a 1-mana play would, and so much more.

Best Elf Payoffs

In most cases, the best payoff for elves will be more elves. The creature type is full of cards like Priest of Titania, Elvish Archdruid, and Heritage Druid that reward you for going deeper into elves.

The general idea of an elf deck is to jam as many elves into play as possible, using all those cards that tap for multiple mana to cast many, many spells a turn alongside effects like Glimpse of Nature and Champions of the Perfect to draw a bunch of extra cards. Once you’ve flooded the board, winning is as simple as using Natural Order or your abundant mana to jam Craterhoof Behemoth for massive damage.

Gaea's Cradle rewards you for having a high number of green creatures in play, and Three Tree City rewards sticking to one creature type. The most numerous green creature type is elves, so these lands will fit this strategy nicely.

Shaman of the Pack is one of the best payoffs for running elves in formats like Pioneer. This will often deal half of an opponent's life total, or even outright kill them if your board is developed enough.

If you have enough elves, Lathril, Blade of the Elves might as well turn them sideways and deal 10 damage to everybody. And Voja, Jaws of the Conclave puts more +1/+1 counters on your creatures the more elves you have, including tokens. Maralen, Fae Ascendant gives you more cards as elves enter the battlefield, and if you control a lot of elves, you may cast them even for free.

Gloom Ripper is a nice removal spell if you’re playing elves, or if they’re in your graveyard. High Perfect Morcant makes your opponents blight their creatures when elves enter the battlefield, while using those same elves to proliferate. So if you’re constantly laying down elves, even elf tokens, they’re gonna be heavily punished.

Champions of the Perfect is huge and can draw you a lot of cards, but you’re required to behold an elf or you can’t even cast it.

Are Elves Good in MTG?

Elf decks can be incredibly powerful in Magic. Depending on the format, you can use your trusty turn-1 Llanowar Elves to set up your future plays, or you can use cards like Elvish Archdruid and Priest of Titania to produce tons of green mana depending on the number of elves you have on the battlefield.

The strength of elves is a combination of their ability to flood the board with creatures and generate tons of mana, which can then be filtered into card draw or some sort of game-ending board pump effect.

What Color Are Elves in MTG?

There are elves in all five colors of Magic, but most elves in the game are green.

What’s the Best Elf Commander in MTG?

In mono-green, there are tons of strong options for Commander players looking to build an elf-typal Commander deck.

Ezuri, Renegade Leader gives the elves deck a win condition in the command zone, and some protection from board interaction. These are both valuable tools.

Marwyn, the Nurturer is the of the ramp-oriented elf commanders. You lose protection and a win condition, but the trade for that is a commander that taps for obscene amounts of mana.

Lathril, Blade of the Elves allows you to play all the elves printed in black, and is currently one of the most popular commanders in EDH, period. It's an elf generator and payoff all in one. High Perfect Morcant overlaps with Lathril's colors, and offers a more control-oriented plan to Golgari elves.

Voja, Jaws of the Conclave is a wolf that puts X +1/+1 counters on your elves when it attacks, and offers a sweet hybrid playstyle with two creature types. Maralen, Fae Ascendant does the same with elves plus faeries coming together for a theft-style strategy.

Are Elf Decks Good in MTG?

Elf decks have a lot of potential. They’re often focused on using tons of mana-producing creatures like Heritage Druid and Priest of Titania to generate a massive amount of mana. And then you can play out a bunch of elves and win with something like Craterhoof Behemoth, or typal lords like Elvish Champion and Elvish Archdruid buffing all your creatures.

That said, elf decks have some weaknesses. Good board interaction makes it hard for these decks to go off. The archetype is often called “elfball” given how it snowballs out of control, so stopping the ball from rolling is a great way to beat the deck. Elves can struggle in formats with interaction that stops them early, usually a cheap sweeper.

What Is an Elf Spell?

Elf spells are cards on the stack with the elf subtype. Almost all elf spells are creatures, but Lorwyn introduced the tribal/kindred card type, which gave a few noncreature spells like Eyeblight's Ending and Prowess of the Fair the elf subtype. This was revisited in Lorwyn Eclipsed with new kindred permanents like Firdoch Core and Morcant's Eyes.

Not that “spell” specifically means the card is on the stack. If it's something on the battlefield, it's an elf permanent instead.

Is Vivien an Elf?

Vivien is not an elf, she’s a human. Two elven planeswalkers were Nissa Revane and Tyvar Kell, though both were desparked at the end of the March of the Machine story.

Is Elvish Champion an Elf?

Yes, Elvish Champion is an elf, which has been updated on all versions from Ninth Edition forward, and appears in the Oracle Text of all versions.

Wrap Up

Champions of the Perfect | Illustration by Chris Rahn

We’ve had powerful and exciting elves ever since Alpha. The quintessential mana dork, Llanowar Elves is a staple of Constructed formats. Elves are one of the main green creature types, and the most iconic. They’re strongly related to mana production and creature numbers, and very strong cards like Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary, Leovold, Emissary of Trest, and Priest of Titania, not to mention the support like Gaea's Cradle or Craterhoof Behemoth.

Which is your favorite elf? Which formats do you run them in? Let me know in the comments below, or over on the Draftsim Twitter.

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