---
name: "Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty"
mana_cost: "{U} // {X}{G}"
cmc: 1
type_line: "Creature — Otter // Sorcery — Adventure"
colors: []
color_identity: ["G", "U"]
keywords: ["Prowess"]
set: "SOC"
set_name: "Secrets of Strixhaven Commander"
collector_number: "306"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Christina Kraus"
oracle_id: "54175132-2c44-4749-8dfd-d08dcc63e4b3"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/elusive-otter-groves-bounty-soc"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty
- **Mana Cost:** `{U} // {X}{G}` (CMC: 1)
- **Type:** Creature — Otter // Sorcery — Adventure
- **Keywords:** Prowess

## Oracle Text
(No Oracle text)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Frolicking Familiar // Blow Off Steam](/printing/frolicking-familiar-blow-off-steam-woe.md) — Creature — Otter Wizard // Instant — Adventure
2. [Otterball Antics](/printing/otterball-antics-blb.md) — Sorcery
3. [Accident-Prone Apprentice // Amphibian Accident](/printing/accident-prone-apprentice-amphibian-accident-ywoe.md) — Creature — Otter Wizard // Instant — Adventure
4. [Bria, Riptide Rogue](/printing/bria-riptide-rogue-blb.md) — Legendary Creature — Otter Rogue
5. [Pearl of Wisdom](/printing/pearl-of-wisdom-blb.md) — Sorcery
6. [Stormcatch Mentor](/printing/stormcatch-mentor-soc.md) — Creature — Otter Wizard

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) #306
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Christina Kraus

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2023-09-01)* You compare Elusive Otter's power to the power of any creature trying to block it only as blockers are assigned. Once Elusive Otter has been legally blocked by a creature, changing the power of either creature won't change or undo the block.
- *(2023-09-01)* If some of the creatures are illegal targets as Grove's Bounty tries to resolve, the original distribution of counters still applies and the counters that would have been put on illegal targets are lost.
- *(2023-09-01)* You choose how the counters will be distributed as you cast Grove's Bounty. Each target must receive at least one +1/+1 counter.
- *(2025-06-06)* 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.
- *(2025-06-06)* 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.
- *(2025-06-06)* 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.