Furnace Strider
Creature — Phyrexian Beast
This creature enters with two oil counters on it.
Remove an oil counter from this creature: Target creature you control gains haste until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #21893
Furnace Strider pumps itself for each red mana you pour into it, making it a mana sink that scales into a credible threat in the late game. The cost is that it does nothing the turn it enters without investment, and a four-mana 3/3 with no immediate effect is a hard sell in competitive pods.
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 |
In Commander, Furnace Strider is a niche include in high-red-mana-output decks — specifically Neheb, the Eternal shells where postcombat mana turns it into a one-hit kill. Everywhere else it sits in the 99 as a mediocre mana sink competing against better options. In Pauper it's legal but outclassed; red aggressive decks want their four-drops to win the game on the spot, not pump slowly. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have no shell where a vanilla pump creature at this rate is worth a slot. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: only relevant if your planeswalker generates red mana surplus.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Furnace Strider is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. It won't appreciate; the ceiling is another bulk reprint that keeps it pinned at the bottom of the price floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.