Orchard Elemental
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Creature — Elemental
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.15 € · ★ 0.25 € · 0.20 $ · ★ 0.49 $
- Mana value
- 6
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Green
Card text
Council's dilemma — When this creature enters, starting with you, each player votes for sprout or harvest. Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature for each sprout vote. You gain 3 life for each harvest vote.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Christine Choi
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2016-08-26
Flavour text
Fruits for friends, fists for foes.
Rulings
Because the votes are made in turn order, each player will know the votes of players who voted beforehand.
If a creature with an enters-the-battlefield council’s dilemma ability leaves the battlefield before that ability resolves, players can still vote for any option that would put +1/+1 counters on that creature, even though—or perhaps especially because—those votes won’t generate an effect.
No player votes until the spell or ability resolves. Any responses to that spell or ability must be made without knowing the outcome of the vote.
Players can’t do anything between voting and finishing the resolution of the spell or ability that included the vote.
The effects of each council’s dilemma ability happen in the stated order. First the vote occurs, then the first effect, and finally the second effect.
Unlike the will of the council cards from the original Conspiracy set, where a majority of votes determined what happened, each vote made for a council’s dilemma card adds to the ultimate effect.
You must vote for one of the available options. You can’t abstain.