Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig

Legendary Creature — Giant Noble

Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever another green creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Yorvo. Then if that creature's power is greater than Yorvo's power, put another +1/+1 counter on Yorvo.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (45)

TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge

2 weeks ago

Alright I posted several times in a row so it's only fair I get us back on track.

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Hammerfall, Maul of the Mighty {5}{G}{G}{G}

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+4, gains trample and ward {3} and is a Giant in addition to their other types.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to an opponent, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, destroy target permanent they control.

Equip {5}

Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig demanded a maul worthy of his stature. As a joke, a farmer hauled an ancient oak that had rooted itself around a boulder. In return, Yorvo made him an Earl.

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Make a Kraken worthy of the Dimir

KBK7101 on Mono Green +1/+1

11 months ago

These kinds of decks usually include cards like Hardened Scales (as mentioned above) along with cards like Experiment One, Pelt Collectorand Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig. If you're looking to make the deck a bit more competitive, definitely check these out.

As for cutting seven cards, I'd suggest 2x Fang of Shigeki, 2x Death's Presence, 2x Hungering Hydra and one of the Contortionist Troupe.

notjinzo on Green Counter Gang

1 year ago

Hydra's Growth Snakeskin Veil Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig Aeve, Progenitor Ooze Ancient Bronze Dragon are some good starts

TypicalTimmy on Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's …

1 year ago

Some fun Background pairings: (All hyperlinks, not hover images. You'll need to click to open.)

• Wilson, Refined Grizzley + Raised by Giants = Big dumb 10/10 with tons of goodies for free

• Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion + Master Chef = You get a counter, and you get a counter, and YOU get a counter! YOU ALL GET SOME COUNTERS!

• Volo, Itinerant Scholar + Criminal Past = Play a ton of creatures, draw a ton of cards, then punish people for taking away your creatures or cards

• Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy + Scion of Halaster - Value engine overload

• Viconia, Drow Apostate + Honestly, so many work well with Viconia. Basically anything that loads your graveyard or cares about creatures. If I had to pick just one though, I'd say Scion of Halaster again, simply because it loads your graveyard for you.

• Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat + Flaming Fist = Big ole beatstick, although Criminal Past works wonderful too because now you get benefits for both creature and noncreature spells

There's obviously more options, but it's 3am and I need to get to bed. But these were my first initial thoughts.

I'll probably build a really dumb and janky Wilson deck later, although I already did build a Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig back when Eldraine first released, and Wilson here would essentially be a clone of it so I'd probably get too bored, too easily.

Lae'Chef would be super fun. I haven't built Selensya in a very long time. So she might be the first one I'll tackle.

Evil Volo just looks like a blast, although Dimir isn't known for being super creature focused, in most cases.

I think Livaan-Fist has some real keen potential as a Boros deck. Almost like Feather, the Redeemed on steroids.

Epicurus on Zaren, Silverback Ironfist (Custom Commander)

1 year ago

Is there room for any counter synergy? I'm thinking about stuff like Hardened Scales, Hydra's Growth, The Ozolith, etc. Maybe even Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig or Avatar of the Resolute. I know, it's another theme to try to balance, but if you could make it fit I think it would be an awesome addition.

Also, I think that The Great Henge would work well here.

That's all I got for now. Looks good!

wallisface on My Selesyna

2 years ago

So i’m a bit confused with the direction you’re trying to take here - it feels like you’re making 3 separate decks and trying to munge them together, with elements of ramp, +1 counters, and stompy. I think you need to pick a path and stick to it without deviation.

• For a +1 counter deck, i’d expect to see stuff like Rishkar, Peema Renegade, Experiment One, Pelt Collector, Avatar of the Resolute, Grateful Apparition, Conclave Mentor, Dromoka's Command, and possibly 1-2 Verdurous Gearhulk as the decks ceiling.

• For a stompy deck, i’d expect Aspect of Hydra, alongside Experiment One, Pelt Collector, Avatar of the Resolute, Steel Leaf Champion, Strangleroot Geist, Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig, Vines of Vastwood, Rancor. Note this deck usually has no reason to splash a second colour.

• for ramp, your cards should only ever be doing one of two things: either ramping you more mana (i.e Arboreal Grazer, Explore etc), or almost-immediately winning you the game (i.e Primeval Titan, Tooth and Nail, etc). Note these kinds of decks will often run 28-32 lands in their 60-cards.

So, my big suggestion is, to pick a clear path, and then stick to it

Apollo_Paladin on The Stuff Legends Are Made Of

2 years ago

It sounds like you have a pretty good handle on things for only being a "casual" player (as you put it).

I actually have a whole writeup on some of my MTG Arena deck posts here on the glory of Blightbeetle. As a matter of fact I use him in two different builds in which I play ranked matches and do quite well (I, like you, don't do any kind of tournament play; ranked MTGA matches is as close as I get to anything resembling a Tournament).

There are a number of popularly-used creatures on Arena which Blightbeetle completely shuts down (as in - kills as they enter play) like Hydroid Krasis, Stonecoil Serpent, and Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig for example. It is incredibly satisfying to watch an opponent play something like that having not read the text on Blightbeetle and scan around in utter confusion as the big creature they just cast evaporates the second it hits the board. This happens somewhat frequently still too, so it is Recurring Joy (haha).

I'm really glad to see you've found this guy as well. Between Blightbeetle and "Big Teysa", you've hit 2 of easily my top 20 favorite magic cards of all time for general play.

And I really do hope you get to make use of all 3 of those Teysas in a build. The synergy there is just off-the-charts good in my opinion. Having Medium Teysa out and getting a double trigger off sacrificing 3 creatures to Little Teysa is just silly good.

MTG Arena is 100% free to try should you ever wish to give it a try (there is, of course, options to spend money, but one needn't do so and in fact in over 2 years of playing there I've spent a grand total of twenty dollars ever). The only downside to not spending ANY money initially is that it takes longer to build up your card selection. Also, there isn't a Commander Format option on Arena (yet) but should you ever feel the desire to give a different format a try you can add me there to play or discuss strategy or whatever: Apollo_Paladin#83413

I'm on most days at least for a little while, if only to earn some daily rewards for my free gold as it's how I accumulate wildcards w/o spending cash.

As for actual physical paper-card games, I myself never had enough people around who played Commander format so I grew up mostly around Legacy-style play.

I'll dig around at what you've posted here none the less. I'd say take a peek at some of my decks as well, but if you prefer Commander then I'm certainly not trying to talk you out of it either.

Cheers!

LyrdAduPot on Yorvo, Lord of Garen-BIG!

2 years ago

You might consider The Ozolith to keep all of Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig's +1/+1 counters in play every time he gets sent back to the Command Zone.