Thousand-Year Elixir
Commander 2021 271 • rare
- Set
- Commander 2021
- Collector number
- 271
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Richard Sardinha
- Market price
- $14.88
What it does
You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste.
1 generic mana, tap: Untap target creature.
Paradoxically, to tilt the massive jug for a sip, you'd need the energy of the giant's tonic.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Thousand-Year Elixir first appeared in the Lorwyn expansion in 2007, designed to support tribal synergies and creature-heavy strategies. It functions as an artifact that grants creatures haste and allows players to pay mana to untap them, effectively bypassing the game's standard limitations on creature activation costs. The artwork, originally by Greg Staples, captures the mystical and restorative theme of the item within the folkloric, autumnal aesthetic that defined the Lorwyn set.
This specific iteration is a reprint from the Commander 2021 release, which featured a series of preconstructed decks themed around the Silverquill, Prismari, Witherbloom, Lorehold, and Quandrix colleges of Strixhaven. The card was included to provide utility to players focusing on activated abilities, remaining a popular inclusion for Commander decks due to its versatility. It is widely regarded as a staple for green-aligned decks that rely on powerful creature-based board states.
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