Durable Coilbug
Creature — Insect
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #22315
Durable Coilbug is a one-mana 1/1 that returns itself from the graveyard to your hand for two mana — a repeatable recursion loop on a negligible body. The rate is low, but in sacrifice and aristocrats decks that need a permanent to keep dying on command, that's exactly the point.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Durable Coilbug earns its slot in sacrifice-based aristocrats shells that need a cheap, self-recurring creature to fuel engines like Sac outlets and death triggers turn after turn. It sees essentially no play in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where a 1/1 with a slow recursion loop is far below the power floor. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where it could theoretically appear in a budget recursion shell, though it hasn't broken through there either. The card's identity is narrow but honest — it does one thing and does it consistently wherever the rules allow.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Durable Coilbug is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is plentiful; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.