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Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig

Legendary Creature — Giant Noble

Yorvo enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever another green creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Yorvo. Then if that creature's power is greater than Yorvo's power, put another +1/+1 counter on Yorvo.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{G}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Throne of Eldraine Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#8916
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Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig card art
Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig enters as a 3/3 for three green mana and snowballs into a serious threat every time another green creature lands — in the right shell it routinely swings as a 10/10 or larger by the mid-game. The cost is pure green devotion, which makes it a non-starter outside mono-green or near-mono builds, but inside those shells it outpaces Ghalta, Primal Hunger on board presence turn-for-turn and slots cleanly into counter-stacking engines like Ghave, Guru of Spores.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ghalta, Primal Hunger

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

36.1% of decks · synergy 0.33

Ghalta, Primal Hunger cares deeply about how much power is already on the battlefield, and Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig tends to accumulate enough counters in a green-creature-dense deck to single-handedly cut Ghalta's cost to two mana.

02
Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh

Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh

18.6% of decks · synergy 0.18

Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh runs a +1/+1 counter theme that makes every incoming green creature a trigger, and Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig feeds that engine while growing into a standalone finisher — two roles for one card slot.

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

In Commander, Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig belongs in mono-green stompy or heavy-green goodstuff builds where the devotion requirement is trivially met and every green creature played compounds its size. Competitive mono-green lists use it as a secondary threat alongside dedicated pump strategies, though it stops short of cEDH relevance due to its susceptibility to removal before it scales. In Pioneer and Modern it occasionally surfaces in mono-green aggro as a curve-topper that punishes opponents for not answering the board immediately, but the three-pip cost is genuinely restrictive in any deck that splashes a second color. Legacy and Vintage have too many faster threats and interaction to give Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig room to grow.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

6 decks
Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainIntruder AlarmYorvo, Lord of Garenbrig

Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainIntruder AlarmYorvo, Lord of Garenbrig

Infinite ETB; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite copies of creature tokens you control; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig isn't currently available here, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for a live quote. Given its narrow mono-green requirement and Commander-specific appeal, it tends to sit in budget territory — worth confirming before you trade for a foil.

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