Dovin, Grand Arbiter
Legendary Planeswalker — Dovin
+1: Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put a loyalty counter on Dovin.
−1: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. You gain 1 life.
−7: Look at the top ten cards of your library. Put three of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Ravnica Allegiance
- Price
- $0.54
- EDHREC rank
- #14788
Dovin, Grand Arbiter enters as a token factory and loyalty sink that taxes your opponents' creatures — useful pressure, but a three-mana planeswalker with a starting loyalty of 5 needs a shell that can protect him. He fits best in blink and flicker strategies like Aminatou, the Fateshifter, where resetting his loyalty counters turns a incremental engine into a repeatable one.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dovin, Grand Arbiter sees essentially zero play in competitive Eternal formats — Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all demand planeswalkers that win the game or stabilize immediately, and a token-drip plus minor damage reduction does neither. Pioneer is theoretically his best constructed home, but even there the effect is too slow against aggressive decks and too low-impact against midrange. Commander is where he earns his slot: in blink shells or Azorius token strategies, the combination of incremental token production, a relevant passive, and a high starting loyalty lets him survive long enough to actually matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Aminatou, the FateshifterTeferi, Master of TimeNicol Bolas, Dragon-GodDovin, Grand Arbiter
Infinite turns; Lock
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Current price
$0.54 bulk tier
At $0.54, Dovin, Grand Arbiter sits firmly in bulk territory — pick him up without hesitation if he fits your strategy. Bulk rares at this price rarely recover unless they find a breakout home, and nothing on the horizon suggests that's coming, so treat this as a cheap role-player rather than a spec.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.