Card

Elena, Turk Recruit

Mana cost {2}{W}

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin 1/4

When Elena enters, return target non-Assassin historic card from your graveyard to your hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) Whenever you cast a historic spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Elena.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 39 known combos. 4 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · FIC · #18
Cheapest printing
€0.27
EDHREC salt
0.23
Color identity
White

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

39 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    An ability that triggers "whenever you cast a historic spell" doesn't trigger if a historic card is put onto the battlefield without being cast.
  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    A historic spell is a spell that is legendary, is an artifact, or is a Saga.
  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    Lands are never cast, so abilities that trigger "whenever you cast a historic spell" won't trigger if you play a legendary land. They also won't trigger if a card on the battlefield transforms into a legendary permanent.
  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    Some abilities trigger "whenever you cast a historic spell." Such an ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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