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Centaur Vinecrasher

Creature — Plant Centaur

Trample
This creature enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of land cards in all graveyards.
Whenever a land card is put into a graveyard from anywhere, you may pay {G}{G}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Edge of Eternities Commander
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#11031
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Centaur Vinecrasher card art
Centaur Vinecrasher is a self-scaling threat that grows every time a land hits a graveyard — yours or anyone else's — and it can recur itself, which means in a table full of fetch lands and mill it quickly becomes a 10/10 for four mana. Commanders like Kirri, Talented Sprout and Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight that churn lands through the graveyard consistently treat Centaur Vinecrasher as one of their best payoffs.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kirri, Talented Sprout

Kirri, Talented Sprout

16.1% of decks · synergy 0.16

Kirri, Talented Sprout triggers off plants and fungi entering the battlefield, and Centaur Vinecrasher's constant growth from graveyard land count makes it one of the fattest bodies Kirri can put in play — those two axes compound quickly into a closing threat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Centaur Vinecrasher does its best work: a four-player game generates enough land drops, fetches, and incidental graveyard activity to reliably push it above 10 power by the mid-game, and its built-in recursion means removal doesn't permanently answer it. Legacy and Vintage are legal homes but offer no real reason to run it — both formats move too fast for a four-mana beater that needs setup time to matter. Oathbreaker is technically viable, but the smaller game size limits how fast Centaur Vinecrasher scales, which is its entire selling point.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1 decks
Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightAltar of DementiaCentaur Vinecrasher

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightAltar of DementiaCentaur Vinecrasher

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mill; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite self-mill

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Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightPhyrexian AltarCentaur Vinecrasher

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightPhyrexian AltarCentaur Vinecrasher

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers

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Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightPhantom TrainCentaur Vinecrasher

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightPhantom TrainCentaur Vinecrasher

Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers

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Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Centaur Vinecrasher is bulk by any measure — you're paying nothing for a card that can close games in the right shell. Bulk rares with specific synergy homes tend to stay flat, so there's no price risk here, just pick it up when you need it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.