The Commander
At the beginning of combat on your turn, return target Vehicle card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of your next end step.
Guide
Gameplan
Greasefang is a reanimator-tempo commander built around cheating expensive Vehicles out of the graveyard. You self-mill or discard a giant Vehicle, then attack with Greasefang to reanimate it with haste and crew it for a lethal swing or a brutal attack trigger before it bounces back to hand at end step. The deck wins fast by stacking enormous Vehicles and protecting your combat step.
Strengths
Weaknesses
- Extremely commander-dependent; without Greasefang the deck stalls
- Vulnerable to graveyard hate which shuts off the whole engine
- Needs both a Vehicle in the yard and a way to crew/attack, so it can clunk
- Vehicles must survive removal during your combat to do anything
Key Cards
- Parhelion II — Reanimating it triggers four 4/4 flying Angels with vigilance on attack, often ending the game outright.
- Skysovereign, Consul Flagship — Deals 3 damage on each attack, sweeping creatures or pinging players while attacking.
- Cathartic Reunion — Cheap discard outlet that ditches a big Vehicle into the yard while digging for Greasefang.
- Faithless Looting — Premier early enabler to loot away expensive Vehicles into the graveyard (note: only legal in red, so use BW alternatives).
- Entomb — One-mana tutor that puts your best Vehicle directly into the graveyard for immediate reanimation.
- Reckoner Bankbuster — Cheap card-advantage Vehicle that fuels the yard and crews itself off Greasefang lines.
Upgrade Path
Add more self-mill and discard outlets (Entomb, Buried Alive, Putrid Imp) to assemble the combo faster, plus protection like Silence and Teferi's Protection for your combat step. Tighten the curve with cheap interaction and tutors (Vampiric Tutor, Demonic Tutor) to find Greasefang or Parhelion II consistently, and run graveyard insurance so a single Bojuka Bog doesn't end your game.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Parhelion II reanimation producing lethal Angel tokens
- ▸Repeated swings from oversized Vehicles like Peacekeeper or Skysovereign
- ▸Skysovereign attack pings for incremental burn and board control into a finish
Archetypes
- Reanimator — Greasefang's combat trigger is a repeatable free reanimation spell aimed at Vehicles.
- Combo — Pairing Greasefang with Parhelion II is a near-deterministic two-card kill out of the graveyard.
- Aggro-Tempo — Recurring oversized hasty Vehicles pressures the board faster than most decks can stabilize.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BW), by popularity.
