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Gwenom, Remorseless

Legendary Creature — Symbiote Spider Hero

Deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever Gwenom attacks, until end of turn, you may look at the top card of your library any time and you may play cards from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Through the Omenpaths
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3610
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Gwenom, Remorseless card art
Gwenom, Remorseless hits the board as a powerful top-of-library manipulator that converts card selection into direct advantage — and pairing it with Sensei's Divining Top turns that manipulation into a repeatable engine. The cost is real: you're committing to a synergy-dependent card that underperforms in isolation, but Mister Negative decks in particular have enough redundancy to make that a non-issue.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Mister Negative

Mister Negative

40.6% of decks · synergy 0.38

Mister Negative runs Gwenom, Remorseless in over 40% of lists because the two cards share the same language — both reward stacking and manipulating the top of your library, and together they form a self-reinforcing value loop that's central to the deck's game plan.

02

Eddie Brock

40.0% of decks · synergy 0.37

Eddie Brock wants bodies that generate ongoing value without requiring heavy mana investment each turn, and Gwenom, Remorseless fits cleanly into that role — nearly 40% of Eddie Brock decks include it for exactly that reason.

03
Venom, Deadly Devourer

Venom, Deadly Devourer

33.9% of decks · synergy 0.32

Venom, Deadly Devourer decks reach for Gwenom, Remorseless as a consistent threat that plays into the symbiote theme while providing the kind of incremental advantage Venom lists need to close games.

04
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

22.7% of decks · synergy 0.21

Shelob, Child of Ungoliant includes Gwenom, Remorseless in roughly 23% of builds because the card's on-board pressure aligns with Shelob's interest in snowballing small advantages into board dominance over the course of a long game.

05
Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Betor, Ancestor's Voice

16.7% of decks · synergy 0.15

Betor, Ancestor's Voice decks pick up Gwenom, Remorseless for its ability to generate value in a top-deck-matters shell — about 17% inclusion rate, and it earns that slot by doing real work in a deck that prizes card quality over raw card quantity.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Gwenom, Remorseless lives — the 100-card singleton format gives it enough supporting pieces to build around and enough game length to let its engine come online. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it faces a much harder bar: the card needs to do something powerful on its own or slot into an established archetype, and right now there's no obvious home. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power of their card pools working against it — you're competing with faster, more broken cards for every slot. Standard and Oathbreaker are both legal homes worth watching if the right shell emerges, but for now, Commander is the format where Gwenom, Remorseless is worth building around.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Gwenom, Remorseless isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the most up-to-date market rate before picking up copies. Given its 40%+ inclusion rate in Mister Negative and Eddie Brock lists, demand is real — don't sleep on grabbing copies if the price looks reasonable for your budget.

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