Card
Vren, the Relentless
Mana cost {2}{U}{B}
Legendary Creature — Rat Rogue 3/4
Ward {2} If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. At the beginning of each end step, create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens with "This token gets +1/+1 for each other Rat you control," where X is the number of creatures that were exiled under your opponents' control this turn.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · BLB · #239
- Cheapest printing
- €0.44
- EDHREC salt
- 0.50
- Color identity
- Black, Blue
- Keywords
- Ward
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
If Vren would leave the battlefield at the same time as one or more creatures an opponent controls would die, those creatures will still be exiled. - 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
While Vren is on the battlefield, creatures your opponents control are exiled instead of dying, and abilities that trigger when a creature dies won't trigger. - 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
Cards that would go to your opponent's graveyard for reasons other than dying, such as being discarded or milled, will still go to the graveyard and will not be exiled instead. - 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
Vren's last ability counts any creatures your opponents controlled that were exiled this turn, including creature tokens.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast