Horrid Vigor
Instant
Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #5680
Horrid Vigor puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control when it enters — the kind of board-wide pump that turns a token swarm into a threat overnight. The cost is low enough that decks helmed by Kona, Rescue Beastie run it without a second thought, and the effect scales directly with how wide you've gone.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kona, Rescue Beastie
Kona, Rescue Beastie floods the board with creature tokens and wants every piece of power it can stack, making Horrid Vigor a natural fit — one spell counters up the entire team at instant speed and turns sideways attacks lethal.
Fynn, the Fangbearer
Fynn, the Fangbearer wins through deathtouch creatures dealing combat damage, and Horrid Vigor's board-wide counter ensures every attacker clears the size threshold needed to connect — one counter on a 1/1 deathtouch creature is all it needs.
Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
Anzrag, the Quake-Mole rewards forcing blocks and grinding through combat, and Horrid Vigor stacks counters that make each attacker harder to trade away, threatening a board state opponents can't profitably block into.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Horrid Vigor earns its slot in any deck that goes wide — token strategies and +1/+1 counter synergies get immediate, scalable value, and pauper-legal status keeps it accessible across budget builds. In Pauper specifically it has potential in creature-heavy green aggro shells where a cheap flash pump can end a race or survive a sweeper window. Outside those two formats it's a fringe player at best — Horrid Vigor is too slow and too reliant on board presence to compete with the linear speed of Modern or Pioneer, where one-mana interaction outpaces a sorcery-speed counter spell every time.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Horrid Vigor sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up as an afterthought and never feel bad about. Bulk rares at this price point rarely move unless they show up in a breakout list, so treat it as a cheap role-player, not a spec.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.