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Wirewood Hivemaster

Creature — Elf1 generic manaGreen mana

Green's go-wide Elf decks of this era ran on a single arithmetic: convert a count of cheap bodies into a payoff the opponent has to answer, whether through life gain, a fetched silver bullet, or a sudden anthem. This is the engine that doubles the count. Every nontoken Elf that follows spawns an Insect, so the same creatures fueling Wirewood Herald and Wellwisher quietly stack a second, parallel board. The nontoken restriction is the discipline the design needs: it stops the ability from chaining off Elf tokens (an Elf that makes an Elf, paired with this, would spiral), and it pushes the deck toward real bodies rather than a single replicating piece. The Insects it makes are not Elves, so they never feed it; the multiplier only runs on Elves you actually cast or otherwise put into play. The 1/1 frame sits dead until you can chain genuine Elves behind it, then becomes a runaway value generator the moment you can, and the surplus tokens are exactly what anthems and sacrifice outlets both want. The body is the weakness, and it is a real one: a single piece of spot removal takes the multiplier off the table for next to nothing, so the deck's whole plan hinges on resolving this before the Elves arrive, not after.

Wirewood Hivemaster (lgn)
LGN · #145uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.30
Foil: $5.86
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever another nontoken Elf enters, you may create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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