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Brood Monitor

Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)
When this creature enters, create three 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$0.13
EDHREC rank
#8248
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Brood Monitor card art
Brood Monitor enters and immediately puts three Eldrazi Scion tokens on the battlefield — six mana worth of sacrifice fodder or ramp spread across three bodies. The six-mana price tag is steep, but Eldrazi Displacer and Emiel the Blessed both loop it for repeated ETL value, and that's where Brood Monitor stops being a draft card and starts being an engine piece.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Emiel the Blessed

Emiel the Blessed

21.8% of decks · synergy 0.22

Emiel the Blessed can bounce Brood Monitor for three mana, netting a fresh set of Scions every turn and generating infinite tokens with a free sacrifice outlet — Brood Monitor is one of the most consistent combo pieces in any Emiel list.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Brood Monitor is a Commander card, full stop. The combination of a large body, immediate token production, and clean synergy with blink and flicker effects makes it a reliable engine piece in the right shells, where six mana is a reasonable ask. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's outclassed on rate — you're paying six for a 3/3 and three 1/1s in formats where that buys you game-ending threats. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's singleton environment and the same token loops apply, but the 20-life starting total compresses game speed enough that the six-mana slot is contested.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.13 bulk tier

At $0.13, Brood Monitor is deep bulk — a penny-bin pickup that punches far above its price in the decks that want it. Bulk rares with narrow but genuine combo applications tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency, but no risk either.

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