Geth, Lord of the Vault
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Zombie
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped. Then that player mills X cards.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.87
- EDHREC rank
- #7855
Geth, Lord of the Vault is a six-mana engine that steals creatures and artifacts straight out of opponents' graveyards and puts them onto the battlefield under your control — a repeatable grave-robbing effect that compounds every time anything dies at the table. The cost is the mana investment: you need both the six to cast him and additional mana each activation, so he stalls in slower games but takes over in grind-heavy metas where graveyards fill fast. Lazav, Dimir Mastermind runs similar theft-from-graveyard angles and pairs cleanly, but Geth is the one actually converting bodies into permanents.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind's identity is built around exploiting opponents' graveyards, and Geth, Lord of the Vault extends that plan from copying to outright stealing — together they cover both axes of graveyard exploitation, copying and reanimating, so opponents' removal and mill work against them.
Tinybones, the Pickpocket
Tinybones, the Pickpocket triggers whenever opponents lose cards from hand, which accelerates graveyard density faster than almost any other commander — exactly the condition that makes Geth, Lord of the Vault most threatening, since targets pile up turn after turn from forced discards.
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 |
Commander is where Geth, Lord of the Vault is built to live: four opponents means four graveyards of targets, and multiplayer games run long enough that you reliably hit the mana threshold to activate him multiple times per turn cycle. In Legacy and Vintage, he's technically legal but a six-mana creature with a tap-plus-mana activation competes with formats where games end on turn one or two — he sees no meaningful play there. Modern's faster clock similarly leaves him stranded, though Dimir reanimator shells occasionally experiment at the fringe. Oathbreaker is a plausible home if you pair him with a mill or discard signature spell that stocks graveyards immediately.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.87 bulk tier
At $0.87, Geth, Lord of the Vault sits firmly in bulk rare territory, which makes him one of the better-value six-drops in Commander given the raw card advantage his activated ability generates. The price is unlikely to spike — he's been reprinted enough times to keep supply high — but you're getting a lot of gameplay per dollar at under $1.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.