Is Mortivore good in Commander?

Mortivore in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Mortivore enters as a 0/0 and grows to a creature-count-of-all-graveyards power and toughness — in a multiplayer game with three opponents, it routinely hits double digits by mid-game. Regeneration keeps it alive through board wipes, and Disa the Restless makes filling graveyards trivially easy, so the ceiling is just whatever your opponents are running.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Disa the Restless

87.2% of decks · synergy 0.81

Disa the Restless dumps Lhurgoyfs into the graveyard as a core engine mechanic, and Mortivore is the biggest Lhurgoyf in the tribe — it counts every creature in every graveyard, not just yours, so Disa's constant self-mill and combat feeding turns it into a reliable 10+ power threat by turn five.

02

Phenax, God of Deception

42.6% of decks · synergy 0.41

Phenax, God of Deception uses toughness as a milling stat, and Mortivore's toughness scales with every creature milled from every library — the more Phenax mills, the bigger Mortivore gets, and the more it mills on the next tap.

03

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

41.7% of decks · synergy 0.41

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord's sacrifice ability deals damage equal to a creature's power, and Mortivore routinely reaches double-digit power in graveyard-heavy metas, making it one of the best targets Jarad can throw at the table for a one-shot kill.

04

Coram, the Undertaker

32.9% of decks · synergy 0.27

Coram, the Undertaker cares about attacking with high-power creatures to exile cards and play them, and Mortivore's floor in a multiplayer game is rarely below 5 or 6 — consistent enough that Coram can count on it to trigger reliably every combat.

05

Old Stickfingers

19.0% of decks · synergy 0.18

Old Stickfingers mills creatures into graveyards on cast, and Mortivore scales directly off that count — every creature Old Stickfingers dumps into the bin is a permanent stat buff that doesn't go away when the stack clears.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is where Mortivore lives — four players means four graveyards filling up, and regeneration means it survives the wraths that flood those graveyards in the first place. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but sees no competitive play; Tarmogoyf does the same job faster and for less mana, and neither format gives you three opponents' graveyards to exploit. Modern is the same story: the format's too fast for a four-mana 0/0 that needs setup, and better threats exist at every point on the curve. Mortivore is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer environment is the only context where its scaling becomes genuinely threatening.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.55 bulk tier

At $0.55, Mortivore is bulk — you're picking this up in a trade binder or a dollar box, not making a purchasing decision. It's a narrow card with a specific home, so don't expect the price to move much, but that also means there's no reason not to own a copy if you're building any graveyard-matters deck in black-green.