Vivien, Arkbow Ranger
Legendary Planeswalker — Vivien
+1: Distribute two +1/+1 counters among up to two target creatures. They gain trample until end of turn.
−3: Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker.
−5: You may reveal a creature card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Core Set 2020
- Price
- $1.03
- EDHREC rank
- #14630
Vivien, Arkbow Ranger enters as a +1/+1 counter engine with built-in reach and a -5 that lets creatures fight their way through blockers — all stapled to a four-mana planeswalker who protects herself immediately. The floor is high: she does real work the turn she lands, which is exactly what a four-drop needs to justify the slot.
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 |
Commander is the natural home for Vivien, Arkbow Ranger — the -3 tutoring a creature directly onto the battlefield is worth the card slot alone in green goodstuff or creature-combo shells, and the +1 quietly builds a clock across multiple bodies. In Modern and Pioneer she sees essentially no competitive play; four mana for a planeswalker that doesn't generate immediate card advantage or end the game is too slow for those formats. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters for the same reason at a higher power baseline. Oathbreaker is where she's most interesting outside Commander: as the signature spell isn't her role, but she's a legal planeswalker commander there, and her -5 can function as a repeatable board-control axis in a lower-power environment.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.03 cheap tier
At $1.03, Vivien, Arkbow Ranger sits in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough to include speculatively and unlikely to drop further given she already trades below a dollar in some markets. The price reflects her limited competitive demand, but for Commander she's an efficient include that costs less than a sleeve.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.