I initially had Grenzo pegged as one of those
off-the-wall designs you see where his text is
basically here just because it's never been on
any other card before. It's especially used on
legends intended for Commander. But in reality,
he represents much more than that. He works in
graveyard-based decks. He works in enormous-mana
decks as either a finisher or the most
roundabout way possible to get Sundering Titan
into play. In fact, he even makes Goblin tribal
possible in Commander, since many members of the
tribe can be put into play with his ability even
when he doesn't have any +1/+1 counters on him.
He deserves to be remembered as much more than
an answer to a design exercise - and I have no
doubt he will be.
Today's card of the day is Grenzo, Dungeon
Warden which is a Black and Red with X Legendary
2/2 that gets X +1/+1 counters and for 2 puts
the bottom card of your library into the
graveyard or in play if it is a creature with
equal or lower power. This is a fantastic card
for any Commander deck using Red and Black and
is easily supported with goblin, rogue, mana
acceleration, counter production, power
increases, or effects that put cards on the
bottom of the library like Scry. Playable at two
mana and still useful for the effect this only
grows in power as the game progresses. There are
even applications for Black support that works
on graveyard cards by having a repeatable
option. Overall this is a very easy inclusion
for Black/Red, that can work without support or
be a serious threat as effort is dedicated to
make the most of the effects.
Oh man, one of those creatures that really show
that sometimes the R&D can still be creative.
Potentially bottom-dealing out a creature for 2
at instant speed is crazy. It's really, really
luck based, but really neat to try. It's one of
those things that's fun to try, but i'd never
recommend it for competitive play. That said,
you can just puff it out to a big creature and
swing for lethal commander damage.
