Is Green Goblin, Nemesis good in Commander?

Green Goblin, Nemesis

Legendary Creature — Goblin Human Villain

Flying
Whenever you discard a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on target Goblin you control.
Whenever you discard a land card, create a tapped Treasure token.

CMC: 4
Mana cost
Color identity: BR
Rarity: rare
Set: Marvel's Spider-Man Eternal
Price: $1.18
EDHREC rank: #10661

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Green Goblin, Nemesis lands as a recursive threat that refills your hand every time it bounces in and out of the graveyard — the payoff is real, and the engine cost is low enough that Tortured Existence alone can drive the loop. Norman Osborn is the obvious home, but any black shell that wants repeated discard triggers will find use for it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Norman Osborn

45.3% of decks · synergy 0.43

Norman Osborn's ability to generate Goblin tokens and trigger on villain cards entering and leaving zones makes Green Goblin, Nemesis a core recursive piece — loop it through the graveyard and you're turning each cycle into cards, tokens, or both.

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 where Green Goblin, Nemesis actually matters — the graveyard recursion loop scales well in a 100-card singleton format where redundancy is scarce and value engines compound over a long game. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal, but neither format has any reason to run it; the effect isn't efficient enough to compete in those environments and the creature type doesn't unlock anything broken. Oathbreaker follows the same pattern as Commander: legal, and plausible in a Norman Osborn shell, but the smaller starting life total and faster pace push you toward tighter win conditions.

Key Combos

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