Elena, Turk Recruit card art

Elena, Turk Recruit

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin MV 3

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What it does

When Elena enters, return target non-Assassin historic card from your graveyard to your hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Whenever you cast a historic spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Elena.

Combos with Elena, Turk Recruit

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.

  • Falco Spara, Pactweaver Sensei's Divining Top Etherium Sculptor Infinite
    • Near-infinite artifact ETB
    • Near-infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2025-06-06

    An ability that triggers "whenever you cast a historic spell" doesn't trigger if a historic card is put onto the battlefield without being cast.

  • 2025-06-06

    A historic spell is a spell that is legendary, is an artifact, or is a Saga.

  • 2025-06-06

    Lands are never cast, so abilities that trigger "whenever you cast a historic spell" won't trigger if you play a legendary land. They also won't trigger if a card on the battlefield transforms into a legendary permanent.

  • 2025-06-06

    Some abilities trigger "whenever you cast a historic spell." Such an ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Elena, Turk Recruit, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 1
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
Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 3 1 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Naya 3 decks

Every version of Elena, Turk Recruit

2 printings, 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.

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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.