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Arcbound Crusher

Artifact Creature — Juggernaut

Trample
Whenever another artifact enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Modular 1 (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Planechase
Price
$3.82
EDHREC rank
#5899
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Arcbound Crusher card art
Arcbound Crusher enters small and leaves enormous — every artifact that hits the board after it adds a +1/+1 counter, and modular means those counters redistribute when it dies. Pair it with Animation Module or slot it into Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp and the snowball starts on turn three.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

85.9% of decks · synergy 0.85

Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp is the natural home: it pumps every modular trigger by one, turning each artifact ETB into two counters on Arcbound Crusher instead of one, and the redundancy between commander and creature makes the engine resilient to spot removal.

02
Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate

Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate

70.2% of decks · synergy 0.63

Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate cares deeply about stacking +1/+1 counters on colorless creatures, and Arcbound Crusher generates them passively just by having other artifacts enter — making it a free counter-engine that feeds Omarthis's payoffs without any additional investment.

04
Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

23.2% of decks · synergy 0.16

Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender runs a colorless artifact-creature shell where every piece feeds the whole, and Arcbound Crusher's passive growth keeps it relevant as a combat threat while its modular death trigger recycles value onto Syr Ginger or another key piece.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Arcbound Crusher is a role-player in dedicated artifact or modular builds — it rarely dominates on its own but becomes a genuine threat in decks that run twenty-plus artifacts. In Legacy and Vintage, it sees fringe play in Affinity-style lists, though those formats have faster, more consistent threats that push it to the margins. Modern has enough artifact density that Arcbound Crusher is occasionally tested, but it's been outpaced by more efficient modular threats and hasn't found a stable slot in the current metagame.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

37 decks
Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightArcbound Crusher

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightArcbound Crusher

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite death triggers; Draw the game

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Price Context

Current price

$3.82 cheap tier

At $3.82, Arcbound Crusher sits comfortably in the cheap tier — easy to include without a second thought in any artifact build that wants it. It's a niche card with a defined ceiling, so the price is stable rather than climbing.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.