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Primal Vigor

Enchantment MV 5

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What it does

If one or more tokens would be created, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Combos with Primal Vigor

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2013-10-17

    If there are two Primal Vigors on the battlefield, the number of tokens or +1/+1 counters is four times the original number. If there are three on the battlefield, the number of tokens or +1/+1 counters is eight times the original number, and so on.

  • 2013-10-17

    It doesn't matter who controls the tokens or the creature that the +1/+1 counters are being placed on.

  • 2013-10-17

    Primal Vigor affects permanents that "enter the battlefield with" a certain number of counters. For example, if a creature would normally enter the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it, it will enter with six +1/+1 counters on it.

  • 2023-09-01

    Everything that is specified by the effect creating the original token or tokens will also be true about the additional token or tokens created by Primal Vigor's replacement effect. For example, if an effect tells you to create a token "tapped and attacking," the additional tokens will also be tapped and attacking.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Primal Vigor, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 4
Games played 9
Win rate 11.1%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist 1 7 14.3%
Pizza Face, Gastromancer 1 2 —
Zaxara, the Exemplary 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Sultai 2 decks
  • Golgari 1 deck

Every version of Primal Vigor

6 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Primal Vigor — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.