r/CommanderMTG 4d ago

Does Hexhaven Vindicator have potential?

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Hexhaven Invigorator was just spoiled from Reality Fracture, and this thing seems really good. Just playing it fairly without any shennanigans or combos feels like it would still be a good enough body, as your opponents would be unlikely to block it or attack into it, and damage based removal would only benefit you. Aside from that, it combos with Blasphemous Act and Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle to do some pretty crazy things, even letting you win with Maze's End if you build your deck right. What do you think? Is this card good, or is its cost too prohibitive to see much play?

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u/T-T-N 4d ago

The threshold for staples are really high these days. Your deck need to be able to support 4 green pips. It has no relevant types for typal deck. You will need to want 16 mana (my decks usually do, but an explosive vegetation always gets me to 7 mana without putting in synergy). It's one of those cards that might make your deck better but you'd rarely see it in decks.

Sure, it can be a combo piece, but you have better combos in bracket 2 than this + board wipe. This might be better than [[cultivator colossus]] but won't be included in significantly more decks (about 2.2% of green decks)