Vivien Reid
Legendary Planeswalker — Vivien
+1: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
−3: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying.
−8: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have vigilance, trample, and indestructible."
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Foundations Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3949
Vivien Reid enters at five mana and immediately threatens a +1 that digs for creatures or lands while stripping enchantments and artifacts, or a -3 that exiles any flying or reach permanent outright — real pressure on the board from turn one. Six starting loyalty is hard to kill in a single attack, and under Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider she lands on twelve and ticks up to sixteen, which is essentially a lock.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider doubles every counter Vivien Reid enters with and places, so she hits the battlefield at twelve loyalty, activates her -3 repeatedly without approaching zero, and threatens an ultimate that was already fast before Vorinclex made it faster — she's one of the cleanest payoffs in the entire deck.
Carth the Lion
Carth the Lion lets Vivien Reid tick up one additional loyalty on every activation, accelerating her ultimate to a realistic threat within two turns of play while also tutoring her from the library when Carth enters — she's both a search target and an immediately efficient engine under him.
Loot, Exuberant Explorer
Loot, Exuberant Explorer wants planeswalkers that generate immediate value, and Vivien Reid's +1 filtering for creatures and lands slots neatly into the ramp-and-refill gameplan without requiring any dedicated support.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Vivien Reid is a reliable utility piece in any green deck that wants repeatable enchantment and artifact removal stapled to card selection — six starting loyalty means she survives the table long enough to matter. In Pioneer and Modern, six mana is slow against linear aggressive and combo decks, so she sees fringe play only in dedicated superfriends or ramp shells where the board is already stabilized. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, more broken options at five and six mana, pushing her out entirely in competitive lists. Oathbreaker is where she gets genuinely powerful — as the oathbreaker herself, her -3 becomes a repeatable removal engine with the right signature spell, and the smaller pod size means she actually reaches her ultimate.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available in the current context for Vivien Reid — check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for the live number. As a six-mana planeswalker with niche competitive appeal, she typically sits in the budget-to-mid range and is worth picking up if you're building any green superfriends or Vorinclex shell.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.