Arcane Foundry › Commanders › Grenzo, Havoc Raiser

Grenzo, Havoc Raiser

Legendary Creature — Goblin Rogue · {R}{R} · Red commander

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, choose one — • Goad target creature that player controls. • Exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Build a Grenzo, Havoc Raiser deck →

What Grenzo, Havoc Raiser actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, choose one —
• Ability• Exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

What a Grenzo, Havoc Raiser deck needs

Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• many cheap evasive attackers and team evasion (every creature that connects triggers it)
• goad payoffs and pillowfort (the goaded creatures attack someone else)
• mana of any color is granted for the stolen cards — no fixing needed

The Grenzo, Havoc Raiser deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 12× A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
• 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
• 10× A creature under the commander's power cap — its text only counts them
• 6× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it

Best cards for Grenzo, Havoc Raiser

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.

Build this deck in the Arcane Forge →

Arcane Foundry is free to join and every tool is included: the Arcane Forge deck builder, the ARCANE Analyzer that scores a deck by simulating games rather than counting staples, a card scanner, a collection vault, and live webcam Commander tables. Read the guide · Browse all commanders · Pricing