Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
Creature — Troll Druid // Sorcery
Trample
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Price
- $0.78
- EDHREC rank
- #10450
Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones puts a 3/2 with lifelink and deathtouch on the board while stapling a land-to-creature conversion on the back half — two relevant effects for one card slot. The cost is that neither half is exceptional on its own, so it earns its seat mainly in life-matters and token shells built around Blech, Loafing Pest.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Blech, Loafing Pest
Blech, Loafing Pest is the natural home — Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones feeds the life-gain triggers Blech demands while Turn Stones converts excess lands into bodies that keep the engine going.
Dina, Essence Brewer
Dina, Essence Brewer drains opponents for every point of life you gain, making the lifelink body on Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones a direct damage source stapled to a creature.
Beledros Witherbloom
Beledros Witherbloom trades life for untaps and loves incidental life gain, so Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones fuels that exchange while Turn Stones gives the deck another late-game mana sink.
Dina, Soul Steeper
Dina, Soul Steeper converts each life-gain trigger into a drain effect, and Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones reliably produces those triggers the turn it enters.
Savra, Queen of the Golgari
Savra, Queen of the Golgari feeds on sacrifice and Golgari creatures dying, and Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones provides a cheap, evasive body that contributes to her sacrifice triggers.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the clear home for Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones — the 100-card singleton format rewards flexible, two-mode cards, and life-matters commanders in black-green are plentiful enough to give it a consistent landing spot. Legacy and Vintage have the card legal but no meaningful reason to run it; those formats don't care about incremental life gain from a three-mana 3/2. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card shell where it could see play, specifically in a Dina or life-gain oathbreaker build that wants bodies and triggers on the same card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.78 bulk tier
At $0.78, Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones sits in bulk-rare territory, which is accurate — demand is narrow enough that no price spike is likely unless a breakout Commander deck pushes it. It's a low-risk pickup for any Golgari life-matters build.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.