Countryside Crusher

Creature — Giant Warrior

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it into your graveyard and repeat this process.
Whenever a land card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Modern Masters
Price
$0.52
EDHREC rank
#20824
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Countryside Crusher card art
Countryside Crusher is a 3/3 that grows into a massive threat by eating every land off the top of your deck — the board impact is real, but the cost is steep: you're actively denying yourself future land drops. Run it only in decks that want an empty library or have already hit their land requirements.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Countryside Crusher slots into landfall-adjacent or self-mill strategies that want to thin the deck aggressively — think Gitrog Monster or Borborygmos Enraged shells where lands in the graveyard are a resource, not a loss. In Legacy and Vintage, it never found a home; three mana for a beater that hoses your own mana development is too clunky against faster, more resilient threats. Modern had the same verdict — the payoff doesn't justify ceding land drops in a format where missing one can cost you the game. Countryside Crusher is a build-around in Commander and a curio everywhere else.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.52 bulk tier

At $0.52, Countryside Crusher sits firmly in bulk territory and isn't likely to climb — it's a niche build-around with a small audience and no competitive demand propping up the price. Pick it up freely; there's no urgency and no financial risk either way.

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