Vengeful Reaper
Creature — Angel Cleric
Flying, deathtouch, haste
Foretell 
(During your turn, you may pay 
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #10495
Vengeful Reaper enters the battlefield with flying, deathtouch, and haste — three keywords that immediately threaten a trade or connect for damage the turn it arrives. The cost is a four-mana 2/2, which is understatted by raw numbers, but Indominus Rex, Alpha turns that keyword density into a mana-free attachment engine that makes the math irrelevant.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Indominus Rex, Alpha
Indominus Rex, Alpha hungers for creatures with multiple keywords to hide under its ability, and Vengeful Reaper delivers flying, deathtouch, and haste on a single card — nearly half of all Indominus Rex, Alpha decks run it for exactly that reason.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vengeful Reaper is a Commander card through and through — the keyword stack matters most in a format where commanders need haste to connect immediately and deathtouch discourages blocks. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, a 2/2 for four with no enters-the-battlefield effect doesn't clear the bar; cheaper threats with similar keywords exist and see no meaningful play. Pioneer is the same story. Vengeful Reaper is legal in Oathbreaker, where the same Commander logic applies, and it does real work there in aggressive keyword-matters shells.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Vengeful Reaper is bulk in every meaningful sense — easy to pick up without a second thought. Bulk rares tied to a single popular commander strategy don't tend to climb unless the commander spikes in popularity, so treat this as a cheap pickup for the synergy, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Indominus Rex, Alpha
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.