Gruul Keyrune
Artifact
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.: This artifact becomes a 3/2 red and green Beast artifact creature with trample until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #18702
Gruul Keyrune is a three-mana rock that taps for one red or green and can animate into a 4/2 trample beater — functional, but outclassed by nearly every two-mana ramp piece in the format. Run it only when you've exhausted the better options or need the creature mode to matter.
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 |
Gruul Keyrune sees essentially no play outside Commander, where the bar for three-mana rocks is already low and falling. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer the card is legal but irrelevant — those formats move too fast for a tapped mana rock with a conditional body to earn a slot. In Commander it lands in Gruul-identity decks that have already filled their two-mana ramp slots and want redundancy, or in builds where the 4/2 trample animation has specific utility — triggering attack-matters effects, for instance. Even there, Gruul Keyrune competes with strictly better options and rarely makes the final cut in tuned lists.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Gruul Keyrune is bulk — it costs less than a sleeve and holds no meaningful value. Don't expect that to change; functional staples at this price point stay cheap precisely because demand never spikes.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.