Elvish Spirit Guide
Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #423 · Rare · Creature — Elf Spirit
Mana cost: {2}{G}
Exile this card from your hand: Add {G}.
"The spirits of the Whispering Woods are mysterious and mercurial. Follow one, and you're just as likely to end up at the center of the forest as you are at your own front door."
—Greensleeves, High Wizard of the Domains
Power/toughness 2/2 · Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu · Released February 18, 2022
Prices
- Nonfoil: $35.54 USD · €20.41 EUR
- Foil: $61.70 USD · €30.82 EUR
Nonfoil price over the last 90 days: up $3.02 USD (9.3%) to $35.54 USD; low $32.52 USD, high $35.54 USD.
Printings
- Mystery Booster 2 #68 (MB2) · Uncommon · 2024 · $2.18 USD
- Dominaria Remastered #157 (DMR) · Uncommon · 2023 · $2.76 USD
- Dominaria Remastered #338 (DMR) · Uncommon · 2023 · $2.72 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #423 (this printing) · Rare · 2022 · $35.54 USD
- Magic Online Promos #65654 (PRM) · Uncommon · 2017
- Masters Edition II #159 (ME2) · Uncommon · 2008
- Alliances #89 (ALL) · Uncommon · 1996 · $5.07 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2022-12-08 · wotc — If a spell or ability's cost includes returning a creature to your hand and paying mana, you can't activate Elvish Spirit Guide's mana ability after returning it to your hand. This is because mana abilities must be activated before you begin paying costs.
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