"Greatbow Doyen" is a 2/4 green elf archer printed as a rare for the Magic the Gathering expansion set known as "Morningtide." This creature card is something that is meant to help out other archers. Despite the Greatbow Doyen being an elf creature, it does not help out other elves. However, it does help out archers. With certain cards, you put Greatbow Doyen in an elf deck.

The converted mana cost for Greatbow Doyen is five. You will need one green mana and four colorless mana to bring Greatbow Doyen from your hand and onto the battlefield. For what this card can do, the casting cost is worth it. Keep in mind that green, out of all of the five colors, has the best mana acceleration. In an elf deck, you can produce the mana fast enough to bring out the Greatbow Doyen.

What does Greatbow Doyen do in the first place?

This creature has two great abilities. The first ability entices you to have a few archer creatures in your deck let alone on the battlefield. Your other archer creatures on the battlefield will get +1/+1. However, it is not the main ability of Greatbow Doyen.

The main ability helps out archers a whole lot. When Greatbow Doyen is on the battlefield, whenever an archer you control deals damage to a creature, that archer deals that much damage equal to the creature's controller. In a sense, you have a means to take out creatures while damaging opponents at the same time. One could say that Greatbow Doyen is good in a green control deck.

In a pure green elf deck, you can combine this with "Jagged-Scale Archers." Jagged-Scale Archers has the power and toughness equal to all elves that you control. If you have ten elves on the battlefield, Jagged-Scale Archers will be 10/10. You can tap it to deal damage equal to its power to target creature with Flying. That is good if your opponent has Flying creatures. Since it is an archer, it receives +1/+1 via Greatbow Doyen. With Greatbow Doyen's second ability, Jagged-Scale Archers can be tapped to do damage to a Flying creature. In turn, the creature's controller suffers that much damage.

There are elf cards that help other elves out. They should be used to help out Greatbow Doyen.

If you are building a deck around allies, you should combine Greatbow Doyen with "Tajuru Archer." Whenever allies enter the battlefield under your control, Tajuru Archer deals damage to a target Flying creature equal to the number of allies you control. With Greatbow Doyen on the battlefield, the creature's controller also feels the damage.

Overall, Greatbow Doyen is an excellent card if you have elves and/or archers. You have a means to get rid of creatures while dealing points of damage at the same time. Any green deck with archers should have Greatbow Doyen.

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