Silverback Elder
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one —
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• You gain 4 life.
Combos with Silverback Elder
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.
- Defiler of Vigor Cloudstone Curio Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Near-infinite landfall triggers
- Put all lands from your library onto the battlefield tapped
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2022-09-09
Silverback Elder’s triggered ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. The ability will resolve 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 Silverback Elder, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surrak and Goreclaw | 2 | 0 | — |
| Forest | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Green 3 decks
Silverback Elder price history
The Dominaria United #177 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | $9.31 | $8.51 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $9.38 | $8.56 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $9.35 | $8.56 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $9.02 | $8.56 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $8.71 | $8.56 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $8.48 | $8.65 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Silverback Elder
4 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. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $9.31
- Foil
- $8.51
Promo
Dominaria United Promos
- Normal
- $7.90
- Foil
- $10.09
Promo
Dominaria United Promos
- Foil
- $8.51
Extended Art
- Normal
- $8.65
- Foil
- $11.23
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Silverback Elder. 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.
