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Halsin, Emerald Archdruid
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Halsin, Emerald Archdruid

{3}{G}

Legendary Creature — Elf Druid

{1}: Until end of turn, target token you control becomes a green Bear creature with base power and toughness 4/4 in addition to its other colors and types.

Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

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Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB #234)
Rarity
Uncommon
Mana value
4
Released
2022-06-10
Artist
Slawomir Maniak
EDHREC rank
#13,282
Colour identity
{G}
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.07
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Can be your commander

Combos 7

Halsin, Emerald Archdruid+Pitiless Plunderer+Lightning Greaves
{B}{G}
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
Halsin, Emerald Archdruid+Nick Valentine, Private Eye+Krark-Clan Ironworks
{G}{U}
Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite artifact sacrifice triggersInfinite card drawInfinite colorless manaInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggersInfinite draw triggers
Halsin, Emerald Archdruid+Pitiless Plunderer+Concordant Crossroads
{B}{G}
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
Halsin, Emerald Archdruid+Nick Valentine, Private Eye+Ashnod's Altar
{G}{U}
Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite artifact sacrifice triggersInfinite card drawInfinite colorless manaInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggersInfinite draw triggers
Halsin, Emerald Archdruid+Pitiless Plunderer+Thousand-Year Elixir
{B}{G}
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
Halsin, Emerald Archdruid+Nick Valentine, Private Eye+Phyrexian Altar
{G}{U}
Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite artifact sacrifice triggersInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
Halsin, Emerald Archdruid+Nick Valentine, Private Eye+Thermopod
{G}{U}{R}
Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite artifact sacrifice triggersInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers

All 7 combos.

Commander recommendations

Top synergy 50

Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.

  1. Beorn the Fierce 100 %+94.1 %
  2. Ordinary Bear 100 %+93.2 %
  3. Beorn's Hospitality 100 %+91.2 %
  4. Little Bear 100 %+89.4 %
  5. Gigantic Big Bear 100 %+87.8 %
  6. Dancing from Dark to Dawn 100 %+84.3 %
  7. Peregrin Took 56 %+53.0 %
  8. Jaheira, Friend of the Forest 56 %+51.1 %
  9. Beorn, Reluctant Host 50 %+43.0 %
  10. Many Partings 44 %+41.3 %
  11. Rise of the Varmints 38 %+37.4 %
  12. Radagast of Rhosgobel 50 %+37.4 %
  13. Second Harvest 44 %+36.5 %
  14. Druid's Deliverance 38 %+36.1 %
  15. Sporemound 38 %+34.3 %
  16. Tireless Provisioner 50 %+33.5 %
  17. Tireless Tracker 44 %+33.2 %
  18. Hornet Queen 38 %+31.4 %
  19. Ambassador Oak 31 %+31.2 %
  20. Fog 50 %+31.1 %
  21. Curious Pair 31 %+31.1 %
  22. Howl of the Night Pack 31 %+29.9 %
  23. Revive the Shire 31 %+29.5 %
  24. Fungal Rebirth 31 %+28.9 %
  25. Arasta of the Endless Web 31 %+28.9 %
  26. Gilded Goose 31 %+28.4 %
  27. Gingerbread Cabin 31 %+27.7 %
  28. Owlbear Cub 31 %+27.6 %
  29. Evolving Wilds 44 %+27.6 %
  30. Wilderness Reclamation 31 %+25.7 %
  31. Luxurious Locomotive 25 %+24.9 %
  32. Circle of the Moon Druid 25 %+24.6 %
  33. Galadriel, Gift-Giver 25 %+24.4 %
  34. Return from the Wilds 25 %+24.3 %
  35. Stew the Coneys 25 %+24.2 %
  36. Awakening Zone 25 %+24.2 %
  37. Bootleggers' Stash 25 %+24.1 %
  38. Thallid Germinator 25 %+23.6 %
  39. Prosperous Innkeeper 25 %+23.4 %
  40. Night Soil 25 %+23.4 %
  41. Druid's Familiar 25 %+23.0 %
  42. Academy Manufactor 25 %+22.7 %
  43. Jaheira's Respite 25 %+22.5 %
  44. Owlbear 25 %+22.2 %
  45. Blessed Respite 25 %+22.2 %
  46. Quina, Qu Gourmet 23 %+21.6 %
  47. Highspire Artisan 19 %+18.7 %
  48. Sylvan Shepherd 19 %+18.7 %
  49. Humbler of Mortals 19 %+18.7 %
  50. Glittermonger 19 %+18.5 %

Most included 50

Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.

  1. Gigantic Big Bear 100 %+87.8 %
  2. Little Bear 100 %+89.4 %
  3. Beorn's Hospitality 100 %+91.2 %
  4. Ordinary Bear 100 %+93.2 %
  5. Beorn the Fierce 100 %+94.1 %
  6. Forest 100 %+3.8 %
  7. Dancing from Dark to Dawn 100 %+84.3 %
  8. Beast Within 69 %+11.7 %
  9. Jaheira, Friend of the Forest 56 %+51.1 %
  10. Sol Ring 56 %-14.7 %
  11. Peregrin Took 56 %+53.0 %
  12. Tireless Provisioner 50 %+33.5 %
  13. Elvish Mystic 50 %+4.0 %
  14. Cultivate 50 %-1.3 %
  15. Fog 50 %+31.1 %
  16. Radagast of Rhosgobel 50 %+37.4 %
  17. Beorn, Reluctant Host 50 %+43.0 %
  18. Evolving Wilds 44 %+27.6 %
  19. Second Harvest 44 %+36.5 %
  20. Many Partings 44 %+41.3 %
  21. Tireless Tracker 44 %+33.2 %
  22. Sporemound 38 %+34.3 %
  23. Nature's Lore 38 %-1.1 %
  24. Druid's Deliverance 38 %+36.1 %
  25. Llanowar Elves 38 %-16.2 %
  26. Rise of the Varmints 38 %+37.4 %
  27. Hornet Queen 38 %+31.4 %
  28. Kodama's Reach 38 %-0.1 %
  29. Eternal Witness 31 %+5.6 %
  30. Owlbear Cub 31 %+27.6 %
  31. Fungal Rebirth 31 %+28.9 %
  32. Rampaging Baloths 31 %+14.2 %
  33. Revive the Shire 31 %+29.5 %
  34. Terramorphic Expanse 31 %+17.3 %
  35. Return to Nature 31 %+17.2 %
  36. Myriad Landscape 31 %+7.5 %
  37. Howl of the Night Pack 31 %+29.9 %
  38. Curious Pair 31 %+31.1 %
  39. Ambassador Oak 31 %+31.2 %
  40. Arasta of the Endless Web 31 %+28.9 %
  41. Wilderness Reclamation 31 %+25.7 %
  42. Gilded Goose 31 %+28.4 %
  43. Gingerbread Cabin 31 %+27.7 %
  44. Blessed Respite 25 %+22.2 %
  45. Stew the Coneys 25 %+24.2 %
  46. Jaheira's Respite 25 %+22.5 %
  47. Overrun 25 %+17.0 %
  48. Circle of the Moon Druid 25 %+24.6 %
  49. Owlbear 25 %+22.2 %
  50. Thallid Germinator 25 %+23.6 %

Format legality

Rulings

  • 2022-06-10

    An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.

  • 2022-06-10

    Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.

  • 2022-06-10

    Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.

  • 2022-06-10

    If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.

  • 2022-06-10

    If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.

  • 2022-06-10

    If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.

  • 2022-06-10

    If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.

  • 2022-06-10

    If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.

  • 2022-06-10

    Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway).

  • 2022-06-10

    You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.

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