Cantankerous Keepers
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The HobbitHOB · #306
- Card type
- Creature — Elf Soldier
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.66 € · ★ 0.93 € · 0.65 $ · ★ 1.10 $
- Mana value
- 6
- Power
- 4
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Green
Card text
Affinity for Elves (This spell costs less to cast for each Elf you control.) When this creature enters, mill four cards, then put all Elf cards from among them into your hand.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Ramza Psyru
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2026-08-14
Flavour text
The guards were decidedly less than pleased, upon waking, to find their prisoners escaped.
Rulings
Affinity for Elves reduces only the generic mana in the cost to cast Cantankerous Keepers. The colored mana must still be paid.
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Cantankerous Keepers's first ability). The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.