Heavyweight Demolisher
Artifact Creature — Construct
Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, tap this creature unless you pay 
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Unearth 
(: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #23574
Heavyweight Demolisher lands as a 6/5 trample that deals 3 damage to any target the moment it enters — a body and a removal spell stapled together. The seven-mana price tag is steep, but you're paying for a creature that immediately affects the board rather than waiting 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 |
Heavyweight Demolisher is a Commander card through and through — the format's singleton structure, larger life totals, and slower midrange pace make a 6/5 trample with an ETB ping more acceptable at seven mana than anywhere else. In Modern or Legacy the cost is simply prohibitive; no competitive shell is waiting on a seven-drop that doesn't end the game outright. Pioneer has midrange decks that can theoretically reach seven mana, but Heavyweight Demolisher offers no broken synergy to justify competing with more efficient finishers. In Commander it slots cleanly into reanimator, blink, or ETB-value strategies where triggering the 3-damage ping repeatedly turns the card from a fair curve-topper into a genuine threat.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Heavyweight Demolisher is deep bulk — you're grabbing it out of a common box, not making a purchase decision. Bulk rares at this price point rarely climb unless a combo or format shift makes them breakout players, and nothing about this card's profile suggests that's coming.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.