Is Aveline de Grandpré good in Commander?

Aveline de Grandpré in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Aveline de Grandpré puts a free assassination trigger on the table the moment she connects — opponents lose creatures, you gain value, and the board shifts without you spending extra mana. The cost is that she needs to deal combat damage to a player, which means she folds to any chump blocker; Ezio Auditore da Firenze runs her because his deck is already built to make that damage land.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

40.5% of decks · synergy 0.39

Ezio Auditore da Firenze is the natural home — his deck rewards dealing combat damage to players, and Aveline de Grandpré doubles up that payoff by assassinating a creature whenever she connects, turning every successful attack into a two-for-one.

02

Vraska, the Silencer

24.1% of decks · synergy 0.23

Vraska, the Silencer already wants opponents' creatures dead and turns those kills into Treasure; Aveline de Grandpré adds another assassination trigger on top of Vraska's own, compounding the creature-removal engine every combat.

03

Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh

19.2% of decks · synergy 0.18

Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh rewards you for having the most of something — creatures, treasures, options — and Aveline de Grandpré feeds that game plan by converting combat damage into free removal that keeps your board ahead of opponents'.

04

The Most Dangerous Gamer

17.7% of decks · synergy 0.16

The Most Dangerous Gamer cares about hunting down targets and winning challenges, making Aveline de Grandpré's on-hit assassination a clean fit that clears blockers or key pieces while still advancing the hunt.

05

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

16.8% of decks · synergy 0.15

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer builds around poison and toxic creatures that are already trying to slip through defenses; Aveline de Grandpré slots in as another evasive threat that punishes any opponent who lets her connect.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Aveline de Grandpré is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where she's seeing real play. In 60-card formats like Legacy and Modern, a three-mana 3/3 with no immediate impact and a trigger that requires combat damage to a player is simply too slow against answers that cost one mana. Commander is where the math works: opponents have fewer turns to answer every threat, the political texture of multiplayer makes combat damage more frequent, and a free creature assassination is much more meaningful when a single bomb permanent can lock down a whole table.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.37 bulk tier

At $0.37, Aveline de Grandpré is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in or pull from a binder without a second thought. Bulk rares from crossover sets tend to stay flat unless a breakout commander gives them a spike, so this is a buy-and-sleeve situation, not a hold.