Leaf-Crowned Elder

set	min	mtgo
-	28.56	0.02 tix

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Name	Leaf-Crowned Elder
Type	Creature — treefolk shaman
Description	Kinship — At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with Leaf-Crowned Elder, you may reveal it. If you do, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Artist	Wayne Reynolds
Set	The List #1140
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Leaf-Crowned Elder

Leaf-Crowned Elder, Creature — treefolk shaman, designed by Wayne Reynolds first released in Feb, 2008 in the set Morningtide and was printed exactly in 2 different ways. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 28.56.

A deck focused on tribal synergy, particularly with treefolk or shaman creatures, would benefit from including Leaf-Crowned Elder due to its Kinship ability that allows for free creature spells. While it can be a strong inclusion in such decks, other cards like Elvish Piper or Quicksilver Amulet may offer more consistent and immediate benefits in terms of cheating creatures into play, making them potentially better options depending on the deck's strategy and focus.

Rules

04/01/08

If you have multiple creatures with kinship abilities, each triggers and resolves separately. You’ll look at the same card for each one, unless you have some method of shuffling your library or moving that card to a different zone.

04/01/08

Kinship is an ability word that indicates a group of similar triggered abilities that appear on _Morningtide_ creatures. It doesn’t have any special rules associated with it.

04/01/08

You don’t have to reveal the top card of your library, even if it shares a creature type with the creature that has the kinship ability.

04/01/08

You play the revealed card as part of the resolution of this ability. It’s played from your library, not your hand. You choose modes, pay additional costs, choose targets, etc. for the card as normal when playing it. Any X in the mana cost will be 0. Alternative costs can’t be paid.