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Greven, Predator Captain

Greven, Predator Captain

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Human Warrior · {3}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander

Menace Greven gets +X/+0, where X is the amount of life you've lost this turn. Whenever Greven attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, you draw cards equal to that creature's power and you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.
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What Greven, Predator Captain actually does

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What a Greven, Predator Captain deck needs

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

The Greven, Predator Captain deck plan

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

Best cards for Greven, Predator Captain

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Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  3. The Fire Crystal4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
  7. Fervor3 mana
  8. Hammer of Purphoros3 mana

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  2. Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
  3. Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
  4. Predators' Hour2 mana
  5. Crash Through1 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
  8. Goblin War Drums3 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Nurgle's Rot1 mana
  2. Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
  3. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  4. Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
  5. Grixis Slavedriver6 mana
  6. Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
  7. Vivi's Persistence2 mana
  8. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer3 mana

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  2. Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
  3. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  6. Sonorous Howlbonder3 mana
  7. Beamtown Beatstick1 mana
  8. Sticky Fingers1 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Terminate2 mana
  6. Fatal Push1 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  8. Crypt Rats3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  8. The One Ring4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Combos with Greven, Predator Captain

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Greven, Predator Captain is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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