Brushstrider
Creature — Beast
Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #27268
Brushstrider is a 3/3 trample for two mana — above-curve stats with a real keyword — but the enters-tapped-unless-you-sacrifice-a-land cost makes it unplayable in any serious context. The downside isn't a corner case; it's the entire card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Brushstrider is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but that breadth of legality is academic. In competitive formats, a two-mana 3/3 trample would be borderline playable only if the land-sacrifice rider weren't a hard tax on your mana development — in practice, no constructed deck wants to run it. In Commander, the 100-card singleton format occasionally finds homes for oddball creatures in dedicated land-sacrifice shells, but even there Brushstrider competes against better payoffs that don't require giving up a land just to untap. Skip it across the board.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Brushstrider sits firmly in bulk territory, and nothing about its design suggests that changes. Bulk is the right price for a card with near-zero competitive demand and narrow casual appeal.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.