Card
Neriv, Crackling Vanguard
Mana cost {2}{R}{W}{B}
Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon 4/4
Flying, deathtouch When Neriv enters, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens. Whenever Neriv attacks, exile a number of cards from the top of your library equal to the number of differently named tokens you control. During any turn you attacked with a commander, you may play those cards.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 2 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · TDC · #6
- Cheapest printing
- €0.40
- EDHREC salt
- 0.27
- Color identity
- Black, Red, White
- Keywords
- Deathtouch, Flying
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
2 known combos.
- Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar + Neriv, Crackling Vanguard
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite colorless mana
View on Commander Spellbook - Eldrazi Displacer + Ashnod's Altar + Neriv, Crackling Vanguard
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite blinking
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
The effect that creates a token may set the name of that token. A token that’s a copy of something else has the name of the object it’s a copy of, unless otherwise specified. All other tokens have a name that matches the subtypes of the token that was created plus the word “Token.” For example, an effect that says “Create a 1/1 green Elf creature token” creates a token that’s name is “Elf Token.” - 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
To determine the number of differently named tokens you control, count each token you control once, but only if its English name isn’t the same as another token you’ve already counted this way. For example, if you control two tokens named “Elf Token” and one token named “Goblin Token,” you exile two cards from the top of your library.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast