Hindervines
Instant
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures with no +1/+1 counters on them.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- March of the Machine Commander
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #15009
Hindervines stops every creature with a counter on it from blocking — a one-sided combat lock that turns a board full of +1/+1 counters into a liability for your opponent. At two mana in green, the cost is almost insultingly cheap for what it does in the right deck, and Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener is exactly that deck.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener
Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener distributes +1/+1 counters aggressively on attack, so Hindervines turns every counter Bright-Palm hands out into a reason the opponent's creatures can't block — the more counters on the board, the more locked-down the defense.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hindervines is a narrow card with a narrow home, and that home is Commander. In 1v1 formats like Modern, Legacy, or Pioneer, the effect is too conditional — opponents can simply build around or ignore counters entirely, and a two-mana sorcery that does nothing without the right board state is a liability. In Commander, the math flips: counter-synergy commanders are common enough that Hindervines regularly blanks an entire table's worth of blockers, and the multiplayer format rewards one-card wide-impact plays. Outside of dedicated counter strategies, it's still a bench card, but inside them it punches well above its price.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Hindervines is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than order. Bulk rarely appreciates unless a commander pushes the card into a mainstream staple slot, and Hindervines is too narrow for that trajectory.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.