Iron-Fist Pulverizer
Creature — Giant Warrior
Reach
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, this creature deals 2 damage to target opponent. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #18803
Iron-Fist Pulverizer puts a repeatable combat damage trigger on a 4/4 trample body — every hit mills three cards, and if you're running a self-mill or graveyard deck, that snowballs fast. Five mana is the honest price, and the stats plus the ability justify it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Iron-Fist Pulverizer slots cleanly into any graveyard-value shell — Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver reanimator lists, mill-adjacent strategies, and anything that wants the yard stocked faster than draw-go. The trample means the trigger isn't easily chump-blocked away, which separates it from weaker mill creatures. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, five mana is too slow for the effect — dedicated mill decks have faster, more targeted tools. Pauper is where Iron-Fist Pulverizer might actually carve out space, since a 4/4 trampler that mills on combat damage is legitimately above rate at common.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Iron-Fist Pulverizer is pure bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk commons with graveyard utility rarely spike unless a synergy piece breaks them wide open, so expect the price to stay flat.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.