Rending Vines
Instant — Arcane
Destroy target artifact or enchantment if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of cards in your hand.
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- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #17407
Rending Vines destroys any artifact or enchantment and replaces itself — the card draw is the whole reason to run it over cheaper alternatives. The three-mana floor is real, but drawing a card on a removal spell is a clean enough rate for Commander.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Rending Vines competes in a slot with a lot of options, but the cantrip separates it from most of them — decks that need to maintain card advantage while answering an Aura, equipment, or artifact will find it pulls its weight. In Pauper, the common slot makes Rending Vines a legitimate consideration since the card draw is proportionally more valuable in a lower-power environment. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a three-mana sorcery to matter — the card is legal but functionally absent from those formats. Modern and Pioneer have access to faster, cheaper artifact and enchantment removal that sees far more play.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Rending Vines is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for guaranteed inclusion in any green Commander list that values removal with upside. Bulk commons don't appreciate, but there's no reason the floor drops from here either.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.