Broodguard Elite card art

Broodguard Elite

Creature — Insect Knight MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

When this creature leaves the battlefield, put its counters on target creature you control.

Warp X (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)

Combos with Broodguard Elite

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Enduring Renewal Pitiless Plunderer Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Enduring Renewal Crystalline Crawler Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Enduring Renewal Workhorse Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Enduring Renewal Basking Broodscale Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2025-07-25

    In some unusual cases, you may end up putting the appropriate counters on more than one permanent. For example, if you control The Ozolith (a card from the Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths set) when Broodguard Elite leaves the battlefield, you’ll put the appropriate number of each kind of counter onto both The Ozolith and the target creature.

  • 2025-07-25

    Broodguard Elite’s second ability puts all counters that were on Broodguard Elite onto the target creature, not just its +1/+1 counters.

  • 2025-07-25

    Broodguard Elite’s second ability doesn’t cause you to move counters from Broodguard Elite onto the target creature. Rather, you put the same number of each kind of counter Broodguard Elite had when it left the battlefield onto the target creature.

  • 2025-07-25

    If enough -1/-1 counters are put on Broodguard Elite at the same time to make its toughness 0 or less, its second ability will see all of the +1/+1 counters it had when it died as well as the -1/-1 counters it had, and an equal number of each of those types of counters (plus any other applicable counters) will be put onto the target creature.

  • 2025-07-25

    If Broodguard Elite has -1/-1 counters on it when it leaves the battlefield, that ability will include those as well. This may result in the recipient of the counters dying.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Broodguard Elite, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 2
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Tromell, Seymour's Butler 1 2 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Green 1 deck

Broodguard Elite price history

The Edge of Eternities #175 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.32▼ $0.01 (3.0%)
Low $0.23 · High $0.33Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 26, 2026$0.32$0.34
Oct 25, 2026$0.32$0.34
Oct 24, 2026$0.30$0.34
Oct 23, 2026$0.27$0.34
Oct 21, 2026$0.28$0.34
Oct 20, 2026$0.27$0.34
Oct 17, 2026$0.30$0.34
Oct 15, 2026$0.29$0.34
Oct 14, 2026$0.31$0.34
Oct 13, 2026$0.32$0.34
Oct 12, 2026$0.33$0.34
Oct 11, 2026$0.32$0.34
Oct 10, 2026$0.31$0.33
Oct 9, 2026$0.31$0.34
Oct 8, 2026$0.30$0.33
Oct 7, 2026$0.30$0.34
Oct 6, 2026$0.28$0.34
Oct 5, 2026$0.26$0.34
Oct 3, 2026$0.23$0.34
Oct 2, 2026$0.24$0.33
Oct 1, 2026$0.25$0.33
Sep 30, 2026$0.24$0.33
Sep 29, 2026$0.26$0.33
Sep 28, 2026$0.33$0.35

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Broodguard Elite

1 printing, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Broodguard Elite. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.