Flowstone Crusher
Creature — Beast
: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #30891
Flowstone Crusher is a 4/3 for five mana with a pump ability that costs two red and a card — a steep ongoing tax for a modest size bump on a body that's already behind the curve. There are better five-drops in virtually every format, and the card-discard cost makes the activation actively painful.
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 |
Flowstone Crusher is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it earns a slot in almost none of them. In Commander, five mana for a 4/3 with no immediate impact and no evasion is a losing proposition in a multiplayer format full of four- and five-drop threats that stabilize the board or generate value on entry. Pauper is the one context where bulk commons occasionally find a niche, but even there Flowstone Crusher competes poorly against commons with better rate or built-in resilience. In Legacy and Vintage, it's simply unplayable.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Flowstone Crusher is deep bulk — the kind of card that rounds out a trade binder but never drives one. That price reflects demand accurately, and there's no pressure driving it upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.