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Commander Greven il-Vec

Multiverse ID: 4643

Commander Greven il-Vec

Comments (15)

kitsunewarlock
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0) (7 votes)
At one point Greven was a pretty strong creature. 7/5 fear for 6? But still there were better...personally I think Ishan's Shade is better (6 for a 5/5 pro-white). Usually the creature you sac is gonna have 2 or more power anyways...really kinda bland for such a cool figure in Tempest history. Very vanilla and outright boring to be honest...2/5 stars for that reason alone.
MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0) (10 votes)
This Guys A Straight Merc
Kryplixx
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (5 votes)
Ahh I miss these guys. Greven.. Gerrard.. Love this art. Very bland card.. but a 7/5 Fear for 6 meant game over.

Flash on this guy would be so cool.
inmypants22
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (5 votes)
no this guy is a curvey merc
Kamikaze312
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0) (7 votes)
I really miss this card. It remindes me one of the disireable cards when i was a kid, when i got one my deck i was always expecting the time of the game when i can put it:P
i wish this card could reborn once again from the dead
Omenchild
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Well he's hardly human. Haha i like how his little croney Vhati il-Dal is so much better nowadays than this fool.
Kirbster
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0) (7 votes)
Not exactly an interesting card, but he's buff, anyway.

Plus, it's fun to say "Commander Greven il-Vec" in a foreboding Russian accent.
jfre81
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Now, suppose your opening draw happened to be a swamp, Lotus Petal, two Dark Ritual, Greven and a zero casting cost artifact creature like Ornithopter to sac for Greven...but what are the odds?
Wanderer25
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0) (14 votes)
Style points for saccing Vhati il-Dal when he comes into play.
TheDrifter
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Is there a typo in his flavor text? I'm not that good at english grammar, but something tells me it isn't right...
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of the hugest humans out there.

Also, true Commander players only use the Commander as their Commander! Perestroika!!
mpawliuk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not the only cool card to feature Greven.
Gremstein
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Everyone hatin on the G man... I think he has really good synergy with undying.

Greven comes into play, I'll sac my Geralf's Messenger.
DarthParallax
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (3 votes)
I get the strong feeling this card was designed before they knew how to make Legends, especially mono-colored ones. Oh, he's nothing as embarrasing as Legends legendary creatures, but I think the sacrifice a creature clause was intended to penalize you for getting such a large creature with fear. :/ The thing is, while fear is nice, it's basically worth about the same as trample- sometimes it's more useful, sometimes a lot less, so a 6 mana triple-black creature with fear...should have more than this to be exciting, if it's legendary.

BUT! the sacrifice turns out to be a Johnny-hackable ability that makes this one of the best-aged legends in Magic :) Of course newer legends are just plain better, thanks for rubbing that in From the Vault, :P but of all the pre-modern card frame Legends, this one might have some of the highest potential even if he starts out boring-ish, because so much can be done with sacrifice and death triggers.
The_Murderauder
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This guy is actually severely underrated in EDH.

7 power is the threshold for taking only 3 hits to kill with commander damage (there's a lot of 6-power dragons flying around that take 4 hits to kill; sucks for them!).

Plus he's got built-in evasion, and 6 mana is easy to get by turn 5 pretty much every game, and turn 4 sometimes.

If you've got some Greaves on the field when he drops, then suddenly an opponent is on a two-turn clock after the first swing.

He requires very little support to work. Basically all you need is at least 1 other creature, which I think is easy to find when you consider Partial Paris mulligans and having drawn 4+ additional cards by the time you can cast him. Definitely at least 4/5 stars.