Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor // Enchantment — Saga
Trample, reach
When Vorinclex enters, search your library for up to two Forest cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
: Exile Vorinclex, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3013
Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution lands as a seven-mana 6/6 trample that doubles your counters and halves your opponents', then transforms into a sorcery that puts six +1/+1 counters on each creature you control and proliferates three times — the board impact is immediate and backbreaking. The cost is real: anything that strips counters, like Hex Parasite, laughs at it, and commanders like Agatha of the Vile Cauldron that exploit activated abilities will never be sad to see it hit the battlefield.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron exiles creatures with activated abilities and grafts them onto her own stats, so Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution's doubling effect stacks with every stolen ability she picks up — nearly half of all Agatha decks run it for exactly this reason.
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider is the most thematically obvious home: two copies of the doubling effect on the battlefield simultaneously means opponents' counters shrink to a quarter while yours quadruple, and Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution's back half proliferates into that warped math immediately.
Loot, Exuberant Explorer
Loot, Exuberant Explorer accumulates a lot of counters across permanents, and Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution's enter-the-battlefield doubling plus The Grand Evolution's six-counter dump turns a modest board into a lethal one faster than almost anything else in green.
Neyith of the Dire Hunt
Neyith of the Dire Hunt rewards having the biggest creatures in combat, and Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution's doubling effect means every +1/+1 counter already on your board gets immediately larger, making your attackers and blockers dominate every fight Neyith triggers.
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 where Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution belongs — seven mana is tolerable in a 40-life format with ramp support, and the doubling effect punishes the counter-heavy strategies that proliferate at most tables. In Modern and Pioneer, seven mana is a fantasy in any deck that doesn't win before turn five, and the card sees virtually no competitive play in those formats. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but no reason to run it over faster, more broken options. Oathbreaker is a viable home if your planeswalker commander generates counters, since the doubling effect applies to loyalty counters too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Vorinclex // The Grand EvolutionHex ParasiteSage of Hours
Infinite turns; Lock
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.