Vengevine
Creature — Elemental
Haste
Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the second creature spell you cast this turn, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $6.72
- EDHREC rank
- #16153
Vengevine is a four-mana 4/3 haste that punishes creature-light strategies by recurring itself every time you cast two creatures in a turn — for free, from the graveyard. Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis decks run it as self-sustaining pressure that opponents have to answer twice, or three times, or more.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis mills aggressively and casts creatures in bunches, which means Vengevine triggers reliably — often multiple times per turn cycle — while Hogaak itself provides the convoke fodder to keep the engine spinning.
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 |
In Legacy and Vintage, Vengevine anchors dedicated reanimator-aggro shells that can recur it on turn one with enough setup, making it a genuine threat in those wide-open card pools. Modern is where its ceiling is most tested — it sees fringe play in creature-dense graveyard strategies but struggles to compete with faster combo decks that don't care about a 4/3. In Commander, Vengevine earns its slot specifically in graveyard-based creature-flood decks; the singleton format means you can't build around it as a four-of, but in the right 99 it's a persistent, nearly free beater that taxes opponents' graveyard hate. Outside those three formats it isn't legal, and in Commander pods without a dedicated graveyard theme it's a low-impact include.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Bloodghast fills a similar recursive attacker role at a lower price point — it lacks haste but recurs for free whenever you play a land, which is often more reliable than the two-creatures condition. Eternal Scourge offers repeatable casting from exile rather than the graveyard, which dodges Vengevine's specific trigger requirement but gives you a near-unkillable body for a fraction of the cost.
Price Context
Current price
$6.72 mid tier
At $6.72, Vengevine sits in the mid tier — cheap enough to slot into a graveyard build without guilt, expensive enough that you want a real plan to exploit it rather than running it as incidental value. Demand is narrow and format-dependent, so the price is stable rather than climbing.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.