Wirewood Symbiote
Mana cost {G}. Power/toughness 1/1.
Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.
Wirewood Symbiote is a green card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Scourge printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€1.77) · TCGplayer ($1.2) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €0.79 and €1.98 in that time.
How often Wirewood Symbiote is played
Wirewood Symbiote is maindecked in 2 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (2%), averaging 4.0 copies; used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 62 decks that can cast green cards, 2 of them play it (3%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Wirewood Symbiote
- Elves: Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand to untap target creature, once each turn. It untaps Priest of Titania for more mana, returns Multani's Acolyte or Deranged Hermit to cast again for another card or four more Squirrels, saves an Elf from removal in response, and avoids an echo payment you don't want to make. It is an Insect, not an Elf, so it cannot return itself and survives Engineered Plague naming Elf.
Tournament decks with Wirewood Symbiote
- Elves: 1st Place at Empoli #2 Phyrexian Academy (4× mainboard)
- Natural Elves: 1st Place at European Masters 2026 Valencia (4× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Wirewood Symbiote
- Snap Cradle Pop (4×)
