Death-Greeter's Champion
Creature — Human Warrior
Dash 
(You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.)
Double strike
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- March of the Machine Commander
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #12094
Death-Greeter's Champion enters with a pile of +1/+1 counters equal to the greatest power among creatures you control, then hands that distribution to every other creature you own — the board-wide buff is immediate and massive. Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener is the obvious home, but any deck that already has a large creature on the table turns this into a one-card alpha strike.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener
Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener proliferates and cares deeply about +1/+1 counters landing on multiple creatures at once, and Death-Greeter's Champion delivers exactly that in a single ETB — dropping counters equal to your biggest creature's power across the entire board and giving Bright-Palm's trigger maximum value.
Gornog, the Red Reaper
Gornog, the Red Reaper rewards you for attacking with high-power creatures, and Death-Greeter's Champion pumps every attacker to match your current ceiling the turn it arrives — turning a board of small threats into a uniform wall of power before combat math even begins.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the clear home for Death-Greeter's Champion: the counter distribution scales with board state, and a multiplayer game almost always has a massive creature somewhere to set a high baseline. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats, but a five-mana creature that does nothing until the turn after it arrives has no competitive standing in either. Oathbreaker can find niche use in go-wide counter strategies, but the smaller starting board makes the payoff more modest.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Death-Greeter's Champion is firmly bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with real power-level upside in the right shell. Bulk rares with strong ETB effects and counter synergies tend to stay cheap unless a marquee commander pushes demand, so grab copies now if you're building in the space.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener
- Gornog, the Red Reaper
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.