Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty

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Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty: Creature - Otter, Secrets of Strixhaven Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{U}
Mana value
1
Type
Creature - Otter
Colour identity
Blue and green (UG)
Power / toughness
1/1
Rarity
Rare
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
Released
2026-04-24
Collector number
306
Artist
Christina Kraus
Commander rank
6,981 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Prowess

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About Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty

Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and green creature from Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC), a Commander product released in April 2026. It is collector number 306 in that set, with art by Christina Kraus. It costs {U} (one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is blue and green. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 3 sets, from Wilds of Eldraine (2023) to Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (2026). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.31 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).

Card text

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.31 (as of 2026-11-01).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

StandardLegal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty

Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Wilds of Eldraine Promos (PWOE) #225pRare2023
Wilds of Eldraine Promos (PWOE) #225sRare2023
Wilds of Eldraine (WOE) #225Rare2023
Wilds of Eldraine (WOE) #289Rare2023

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty, newest first.

  • If a spell is cast as an Adventure, its controller exiles it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard as it resolves. For as long as it remains exiled, that player may play it using its primary characteristics. If an Adventure spell leaves the stack in any way other than resolving (most likely by being countered or by failing to resolve because its targets have all become illegal), that card won't be exiled and the spell's controller won't be able to play that card from exile later.
  • If you cast an adventurer card as an Adventure, use only its alternative characteristics to determine whether it's legal to cast that spell. For example, if you control Traveling Chocobo ("You may play lands and cast Bird spells from the top of your library.") and Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital is on top of your library, you can play Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital, but you can't cast Overture.
  • An effect may refer to a card, spell, or permanent that "has an Adventure." This refers to a card, spell, or permanent that has an adventurer card's set of alternative characteristics, even if they're not being used and even if that card was never cast as an Adventure.
  • If an adventurer card ends up in exile for any other reason than by exiling itself while resolving, it won't give you permission to play it with its primary characteristics.
  • If an effect copies an Adventure spell, that copy is exiled as it resolves. It ceases to exist as a state-based action; it's not possible to play the copy as a permanent.
  • When playing a card as an Adventure, use the alternative characteristics and ignore all of the card's normal characteristics. The resulting spell's color, mana cost, mana value, and so on are determined by only those alternative characteristics. If the spell leaves the stack, it immediately resumes using its normal characteristics.
  • Casting a card as an Adventure isn't casting it for an alternative cost. Effects that allow you to cast a spell for an alternative cost or without paying its mana cost may allow you to apply those to the Adventure.
  • If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose the alternative Adventure name. Consider only the alternative characteristics to determine whether that is an appropriate name to choose.

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