Is Grave Titan good in Commander?

Grave Titan in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Grave Titan enters and attacks as a six-mana board presence that immediately generates four power worth of 2/2 Zombies alongside its own 6/6 deathtouch body — opponents have to answer it twice or get buried. It slots into any black deck that wants bodies, but it's the engine piece in Nim Deathmantle loops and the headliner of Temmet, Naktamun's Will token strategies where its enter-the-battlefield trigger fires on every blink or bounce.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Temmet, Naktamun's Will

67.6% of decks · synergy 0.63

Temmet, Naktamun's Will cares deeply about having multiple tokens in play, and Grave Titan delivers two 2/2 Zombies on entry plus more on each attack — flooding the board exactly as Temmet's anthem and evasion effects need it.

02

Akul the Unrepentant

59.5% of decks · synergy 0.58

Akul the Unrepentant wants large sacrifice fodder and recurring threats, and Grave Titan provides a steady drip of Zombie tokens to feed that engine while threatening to end the game on its own.

03

The Scarab God

49.6% of decks · synergy 0.44

The Scarab God turns every Zombie on the battlefield into a drain trigger and every creature in any graveyard into a recursive threat, so Grave Titan's token generation and inevitable reanimation targets create a self-reinforcing loop.

04

Ghoulcaller Gisa

48.4% of decks · synergy 0.42

Ghoulcaller Gisa's activated ability scales with power, and sacrificing Grave Titan itself produces six 2/2 Zombies in a single activation — an output almost nothing else in black can match at the same mana investment.

05

Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

46.1% of decks · synergy 0.40

Grimgrin, Corpse-Born needs a constant stream of creatures to sacrifice for counters and untap triggers, and Grave Titan's attack step replenishes that supply automatically, keeping Grimgrin fueled through a single resolved threat.

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 Grave Titan does its best work — the singleton format's slower pace gives it time to land, and the multiplayer environment makes the immediate board presence and token generation relevant against three opponents simultaneously. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but competes against formats defined by turn-one and turn-two interaction; six mana is a steep ask when the game is often decided before you untap with it. Oathbreaker has a lower power ceiling than Legacy, which actually makes Grave Titan's raw stats more threatening there, though the format is niche enough that most play happens through Commander anyway.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

2,044 decks

Nim Deathmantle Ashnod's AltarGrave Titan

Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers

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28 decks

Breath of Fury AngerGrave Titan

Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite combat damage

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11 decks

Breath of Fury Rising of the DayGrave Titan

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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11 decks

Breath of Fury FervorGrave Titan

Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite creature tokens with haste

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6 decks

Breath of Fury Urabrask the HiddenGrave Titan

Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite creature tokens with haste

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current number. Grave Titan has been reprinted several times, which tends to keep its floor accessible, but the combination of combo potential and broad Commander demand means it rarely bottoms out entirely.