Etherium Abomination
Artifact Creature — Horror
Unearth 
(: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Alara Reborn
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #29199
Etherium Abomination lands as a 4/3 unearth with built-in card draw on attack — three bodies' worth of value compressed into one card slot. The drawback of sacrificing it at end of turn is the entire point in artifact and sacrifice strategies, not a cost you pay against your will.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Etherium Abomination is a bulk role-player in Commander, showing up in artifact-matters and sacrifice shells where the forced end-of-turn sac reads as a trigger rather than a penalty. In Pauper it's legal and the stats are fine for the format's lower power ceiling, but unearth at three mana is slow when the format punishes incremental value. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it — the effect is too low-impact to compete at those power levels. Commander is the only format where Etherium Abomination earns a genuine slot, and even there it needs the right shell.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Etherium Abomination is deep bulk — easy to grab from any dollar bin or as a throwaway addition to a singles order. Price is stable at this floor; there's no meaningful upside unless a popular Commander precon spotlights it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.