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Vorel of the Hull Clade

Legendary Creature — Human Merfolk

{G}{U}, {T}: Double the number of each kind of counter on target artifact, creature, or land.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{G}{U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
rare
Set
Dragon's Maze
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#3092
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Vorel of the Hull Clade card art
Vorel of the Hull Clade doubles every counter on any permanent you control for two mana and a tap — proliferate on a stick, but restricted to artifacts, creatures, and lands, which matters. The ceiling is absurd in counter-heavy builds; the cost is that he's a fragile 1/4 with no protection who asks you to untap before anything happens, making him reliably disruptable and a magnet for removal in the same turn you try to go off with something like Magistrate's Scepter or Me, the Immortal.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Me, the Immortal

Me, the Immortal

52.0% of decks · synergy 0.51

Me, the Immortal runs Vorel of the Hull Clade as a core piece of the extra-turn engine — doubling the time counters on Me accelerates the commander's own win condition faster than nearly anything else available in Simic.

02
Zimone, Paradox Sculptor

Zimone, Paradox Sculptor

54.8% of decks · synergy 0.47

Zimone, Paradox Sculptor cares deeply about doubling and proliferating counters, and Vorel of the Hull Clade slots in as a redundant doubling effect that keeps the combo engine firing even when Zimone is answered.

04
Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied

Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied

44.9% of decks · synergy 0.37

Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied generates and cares about flowing counter density, and Vorel of the Hull Clade acts as a force multiplier — one activation can take a mediocre board state to a lethal one inside a single combat step.

05
Hakbal of the Surging Soul

Hakbal of the Surging Soul

40.8% of decks · synergy 0.33

Hakbal of the Surging Soul is one of the most-built Merfolk commanders and leans heavily on +1/+1 counter synergies across a wide tribe; Vorel of the Hull Clade doubles those counters, converting Hakbal's incremental growth into board-defining power spikes.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the natural home for Vorel of the Hull Clade — the format's longer game gives you the turns needed to set up the permanents worth doubling, and the counter-synergy space in Simic is deep enough to build around. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer he's legal but ignored; a 1/4 for three mana that requires a tap and another permanent with counters already on it simply cannot compete with those formats' pace. Oathbreaker gives him a second look in the same way Commander does, though the 20-life total compresses the timeline and makes his fragility hurt more. Vintage and Pauper legality is technically correct but practically irrelevant — he's not a format card in either.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Vorel of the Hull Clade is firmly bulk, which is accurate for a card with real combo ceiling but narrow application outside dedicated counter shells. The price has nowhere interesting to go — widespread reprint history and a large supply keep it pinned at this tier regardless of how many decks run it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.