Feldon, Ronom Excavator
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
Haste
Feldon can't block.
Whenever Feldon is dealt damage, exile that many cards from the top of your library. Choose one of them. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Brothers' War Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #16426
Feldon, Ronom Excavator turns every card you discard into card selection, converting the cost of looting and cycling effects into tangible card advantage over the course of a game. The catch is that you have to build around the discard — in a vacuum, he's a 2/3 for two mana that does nothing.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Feldon, Ronom Excavator is most at home, slotting cleanly into any red or Gruul deck that leans on discard synergies — Anje Falkenrath, Grist, the Hunger Tide, and madness-adjacent strategies all benefit from turning discards into exile-and-draw triggers. In Modern and Legacy, the competition at two mana is steep enough that he rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated looting shells, and even there he's fringe. Pioneer is a similar story — playable in theory, seldom seen in practice. Vintage has no shortage of broken discard outlets but doesn't need a payoff this modest.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Feldon, Ronom Excavator right now, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for current market rates. Given the narrow synergy requirements, don't expect a premium — this is the kind of card that sits in the bulk-rare bin until someone breaks a discard loop with it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.