Burnished Hart
Artifact Creature — Elk
, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2021
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #437
Burnished Hart puts two basic lands onto the battlefield — not into hand, onto the battlefield — for a combined investment of six mana across two activations. The cost is real: three mana to cast, three more to sacrifice, and you're waiting a full turn cycle before the payoff lands. In decks that can cheat the sacrifice trigger or recur the Hart repeatedly, that cost collapses fast; everywhere else, it's a budget role-player that gets the job done without pretending to be Sol Ring.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ashnod the Uncaring
Ashnod the Uncaring copies triggered abilities, which means Burnished Hart's sacrifice trigger fires twice — netting four basics from a single activation instead of two. That's a land engine, not just ramp.
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest generates Egg tokens whenever a non-Egg creature enters, so Burnished Hart contributes to the token count on cast and then frees itself up to ramp — every step of the Hart's lifecycle feeds the engine.
Gogo, Master of Mimicry
Gogo, Master of Mimicry copies creatures as they enter, and Burnished Hart is a cheap artifact creature worth duplicating — two Harts in play means double the ramp activations available in the same turn window.
Charix, the Raging Isle
Charix, the Raging Isle is a mono-blue commander with no built-in ramp, so Burnished Hart fills the critical role of non-land mana acceleration in a color that otherwise has to lean on artifacts entirely.
Zirda, the Dawnwaker
Zirda, the Dawnwaker reduces activated abilities of permanents, cutting Burnished Hart's sacrifice cost from three to one — suddenly the Hart is a two-mana spell that fetches two basics, which is legitimately efficient ramp.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Burnished Hart is a Commander card through and through — the slow two-step of casting then sacrificing is exactly the kind of sequencing that 40-life multiplayer games tolerate, and color-fixing basics out of your library matters far more when you're building five-color goodstuff than when you're curving out in a 20-life format. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, Burnished Hart is unplayable on rate: six mana across two turns to fetch two lands is catastrophically behind. Legacy and Vintage are even less interested. Oathbreaker is the closest analog to Commander in terms of pace and deck-building philosophy, and the Hart sees genuine play there for the same reasons — color-fixing, resilience against land destruction, and synergy with sacrifice payoffs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Burnished Hart is firmly bulk — you'll find it in the dollar box at any LGS or bundled into precon pickups without a second thought. Bulk artifact creatures with universal Commander utility tend to stay cheap regardless of reprint cycles, so there's no reason to pay more than this.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ashnod the Uncaring
- Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
- Gogo, Master of Mimicry
- Charix, the Raging Isle
- Zirda, the Dawnwaker
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.