Elvish Spirit Guide
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Exile this card from your hand: Add .
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2022-12-08
If a spell or ability's cost includes returning a creature to your hand and paying mana, you can't activate Elvish Spirit Guide's mana ability after returning it to your hand. This is because mana abilities must be activated before you begin paying costs.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Elvish Spirit Guide, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klothys, God of Destiny | 1 | 0 | — |
| Pantlaza, Sun-Favored | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Gruul 1 deck
- Naya 1 deck
Every version of Elvish Spirit Guide
5 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Mystery Booster 2
- Normal
- $2.03

Dominaria Remastered
- Normal
- $3.30
- Foil
- $3.58

Dominaria Remastered
- Normal
- $3.17
- Foil
- $14.88

Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $35.23
- Foil
- $65.61

Alliances
- Normal
- $5.24
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Elvish Spirit Guide — a name search across every version, for 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.