Is Neerdiv, Devious Diver good in Commander?

Neerdiv, Devious Diver

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Rogue

Whenever Neerdiv becomes tapped, target player mills cards equal to its power.
Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard or activate an ability of a card in your graveyard, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Neerdiv.

CMC: 3
Mana cost
Color identity: U
Rarity: rare
Set: Foundations Jumpstart
Price: $1.84
EDHREC rank: #8420

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Neerdiv, Devious Diver lets you discard a card to untap a creature or artifact — on demand, at instant speed — which is a mana-neutral looting effect with upside any time you have a tap outlet worth untapping. Pair it with something like Relic of Legends and a legendary-heavy board and you're generating value on both sides of the discard; slot it into Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer and the discard cost stops being a cost entirely.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

34.9% of decks · synergy 0.34

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer turns every discard into a free cast from the graveyard, which means Neerdiv, Devious Diver's activation stops costing you a card and starts generating one — it's an engine piece, not just a utility creature.

Emet-Selch, Unsundered

23.4% of decks · synergy 0.22

Emet-Selch, Unsundered rewards you for putting permanents into the graveyard, so Neerdiv, Devious Diver's repeated discard fuels the soul counter payoffs while the untap effect keeps your mana or key artifacts tapping twice per turn.

Emry, Lurker of the Loch

12.2% of decks · synergy 0.12

Emry, Lurker of the Loch wants artifacts in the graveyard and wants to tap repeatedly, and Neerdiv, Devious Diver gives you both — pitch an artifact to the discard, untap Emry, cast the artifact back.

Norman Osborn

12.0% of decks · synergy 0.11

Norman Osborn cares about artifacts entering and leaving play, and Neerdiv, Devious Diver's discard-to-untap loop gives him a cheap, repeatable way to churn through artifacts and keep his triggered effects firing.

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

Neerdiv, Devious Diver is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — and Commander is where it actually matters. In Legacy and Vintage the effect is too slow and too marginal to compete with dedicated looting or untap pieces that cost less setup. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if your planeswalker leans on a tap-heavy signature spell, but the card's ceiling lives in Commander, where graveyard-synergy commanders like Oskar turn the discard from a drawback into a trigger, and artifact-value commanders like Emry use the untap as a second activation every turn.

Key Combos

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