Furnace Host Charger
Creature — Phyrexian Giant
Haste
Mountaincycling 
(, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #18831
Furnace Host Charger enters the battlefield and immediately proliferates, pushing every counter on every permanent and player one step further — that on-board impact is real and costs you nothing extra beyond the mana to cast it. Five mana for a 4/4 with trample is a fair rate, and the free proliferate stapled to that body makes it a genuine engine piece in any deck that cares about counters.
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 |
Commander is where Furnace Host Charger earns its slot: proliferate scales with the table, hitting planeswalkers, charge counters, +1/+1 counters, and poison all at once, and a 4/4 trample body is relevant enough not to embarrass itself in combat. In Pauper it's legal and the rate is competitive for the format, though dedicated proliferate synergies are narrower there. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all have faster, more efficient options, so Furnace Host Charger is unlikely to see serious play in those formats outside of niche +1/+1 counter brews.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Furnace Host Charger is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with genuine utility in counter-heavy Commander decks. Bulk rares with real synergy upside occasionally tick up if a commander pushes the mechanic into the spotlight, but at this price the question is never whether it's worth buying; it's just whether it fits your list.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.