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Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
Legendary Creature — Goblin Rogue · {X}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander
Grenzo enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{2}: Put the bottom card of your library into your graveyard. If it's a creature card with power less than or equal to Grenzo's power, put it onto the battlefield.
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What Grenzo, Dungeon Warden actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{2}: Put the bottom card of your library into your graveyard. If it's a creature card with power less than or equal to Grenzo's power, put it onto the battlefield.
What a Grenzo, Dungeon Warden deck needs
Plays as creature cheat. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creatures with power at or below its own (each activation mills the bottom card and puts one in)
- ways to grow it
The Grenzo, Dungeon Warden deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 24× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
Best cards for Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain2 mana
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Scheming Aspirant2 mana
- Cacophony Scamp1 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose3 mana
- Artist's Talent2 mana
- Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei2 mana
- Nightscape Familiar2 mana
- Roiling Vortex2 mana
Combos with Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Grenzo, Dungeon Warden is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Grenzo, Dungeon Warden + The Cauldron Of Eternity + Ashnod's Altar2,296 decks
- Grenzo, Dungeon Warden + Workhorse + Tomb Trawler2,052 decks
- Grenzo, Dungeon Warden + Workhorse + Barkform Harvester2,045 decks
- Grenzo, Dungeon Warden + Workhorse + The Cauldron Of Eternity1,982 decks
- Grenzo, Dungeon Warden + Workhorse + Hoverstone Pilgrim1,696 decks
- Grenzo, Dungeon Warden + Workhorse + Epitaph Golem1,290 decks