Vivien's Talent
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant planeswalker
Enchanted planeswalker has "[+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."
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, put a loyalty counter on enchanted planeswalker.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- March of the Machine Commander
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #19622
Vivien's Talent is a three-mana enchantment that levels up your creatures over multiple turns, stacking +1/+1 counters and eventually granting keywords across your whole board. The payoff is real in the right shell, but it demands a creature-heavy green deck that can afford a slow build — it does nothing the turn it lands.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Vivien's Talent lives — the long game gives it room to accumulate counters, and tribal or creature-flood strategies can turn the level-up payoffs into a genuine late-game engine. Legacy and Vintage are both technically legal, but neither format has the patience for a three-mana enchantment that doesn't impact the board immediately. Oathbreaker is the sleeper home: the tighter game length still favors proactive green builds, and a Vivien planeswalker as commander creates obvious thematic overlap. Modern, Pioneer, and Standard are all off the table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Vivien's Talent is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a bargain bin. The price is unlikely to move unless a breakout Commander build pushes demand, which hasn't happened yet.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.