Jacques le Vert
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
Green creatures you control get +0/+2.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $25.84
- EDHREC rank
- #27354
Jacques le Vert gives all your green creatures +0/+2 — a static toughness anthem on a 3/5 body for four mana that makes your whole board stickier the moment it lands. The effect is narrow by design, but in a green-heavy creature deck it quietly blanks a surprising amount of damage-based removal.
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 Jacques le Vert actually sees play — as either the commander of a mono-green or Gruul creature-heavy build, or as a piece in the 99 of decks that want toughness-matters payoffs alongside cards like Assault Formation or High Alert. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats on paper, but a four-mana do-nothing-the-turn-it-enters toughness anthem has never been competitive there. Jacques le Vert is Commander-specific in practice: the 100-card singleton format is the only place the effect gets enough bodies to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Beastmaster Ascension and Overwhelming Stampede hit harder in the same green-creature shells, but if you specifically want the toughness buff, Solidarity of Heroes and Gaea's Anthem each cover similar ground for a fraction of the cost. Jacques le Vert's unique toughness-only clause is the sticking point — no single cheap card replicates it exactly, so the honest alternative is just running a more generically powerful anthem and accepting you're not maximizing toughness-matters synergies.
Price Context
Current price
$25.84 premium tier
At $25.84, Jacques le Vert sits in premium territory driven almost entirely by reserved-list scarcity rather than raw power. The price holds because supply is fixed and Commander demand for old-border legends is steady, but you are paying a significant collector premium for a card whose gameplay impact rarely justifies double-digit spend.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.