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God-Eternal Rhonas

Legendary Creature — Zombie God

Deathtouch
When God-Eternal Rhonas enters, double the power of each other creature you control until end of turn. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn.
When God-Eternal Rhonas dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
War of the Spark Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4758
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God-Eternal Rhonas card art
God-Eternal Rhonas enters and doubles the power of every creature you control until end of turn — on a 5/5 deathtouch body that shuffles back into your library when it dies, that's a board-wide Overrun stapled to a recursive threat. The five-mana cost is real, but the ceiling on attack-step blowouts is high enough that shells from Volo, Guide to Monsters to Verdant Succession loops run it without apology.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Volo, Guide to Monsters

Volo, Guide to Monsters

23.0% of decks · synergy 0.22

Volo, Guide to Monsters copies every non-Human creature spell with a new creature type, and God-Eternal Rhonas is a Zombie God — a type Volo decks rarely crowd out — so a single cast frequently nets two Rhonas triggers, doubling the board twice over on the same combat step.

02
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

24.9% of decks · synergy 0.21

Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma reduces God-Eternal Rhonas to three mana and grants it trample on attack, collapsing the cost-to-impact ratio dramatically; you're landing a 5/5 deathtouch that doubles your board for the price of a three-drop.

03
Zilortha, Strength Incarnate

Zilortha, Strength Incarnate

16.2% of decks · synergy 0.15

Zilortha, Strength Incarnate uses power instead of toughness for trample damage, which means the doubled-power creatures God-Eternal Rhonas creates punch through blockers as efficiently as they threaten lethal — the two cards share the same axis completely.

04
Ghalta, Primal Hunger

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

16.2% of decks · synergy 0.13

God-Eternal Rhonas costs down Ghalta, Primal Hunger's commander tax by doubling the power of every creature in play before you calculate the discount, routinely letting Ghalta enter for one or two mana the same turn Rhonas resolves.

05

Esika, God of the Tree

9.4% of decks · synergy 0.09

The Prismatic Bridge side of Esika, God of the Tree cheats God-Eternal Rhonas into play for free, and when Rhonas eventually dies it shuffles back into the library rather than into a graveyard the Bridge can't reach — keeping the engine clean.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where God-Eternal Rhonas does its best work: a board of ten 3/3s becomes a board of ten 6/3s with a triggered attack, and five mana is a reasonable ask by the time you want to close the game. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's technically legal but too slow and win-more for competitive shells — five mana for a single-combat pump effect doesn't compete with the density of interaction in those formats. Vintage has the raw speed to make it irrelevant before it resolves. Oathbreaker is the one 60-card-adjacent format where God-Eternal Rhonas is worth considering, specifically as a signature spell target in a stompy shell, though most pilots prefer cheaper finishers.

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for God-Eternal Rhonas isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for the live number. Historically it sits in the $3–6 range for the War of the Spark printing, which makes it an easy include given the power level — you're not paying a premium for a niche card.

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