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Lokhust Heavy Destroyer

Artifact Creature — Necron

Flying
Enmitic Exterminator — When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Unearth {5}{B}{B}{B} ({5}{B}{B}{B}: 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
4
Mana cost
{1}{B}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Warhammer 40,000 Commander
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#10876
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Lokhust Heavy Destroyer card art
Lokhust Heavy Destroyer enters and immediately threatens -1/-1 counters across the board, and when it dies it replaces itself with a Canoptek Scarab token — meaningful impact on both ends of its existence. At six mana it asks a real question, but in Imotekh the Stormlord lists and anywhere Out of the Tombs is doing work, the recursive upside justifies every penny of that cost.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Imotekh the Stormlord

Imotekh the Stormlord

46.3% of decks · synergy 0.44

Imotekh the Stormlord wants exactly this: Lokhust Heavy Destroyer generates a Canoptek Scarab on death, which feeds Imotekh's Reanimator-adjacent grind and keeps the Necron board replenishing itself without extra investment.

02
Glissa, the Traitor

Glissa, the Traitor

32.1% of decks · synergy 0.32

Glissa, the Traitor turns every opponent's creature dying into a free artifact recursion trigger, and Lokhust Heavy Destroyer — an artifact creature that reliably trades into blockers with its -1/-1 counter ability — sets up that loop cleanly and repeatedly.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Lokhust Heavy Destroyer is a Commander card through and through — its death trigger and board-wide -1/-1 effect scale best in a four-player game where there are always creatures to weaken and always a board state to disrupt. It's legal in Legacy and Vintage but six mana for a 5/5 with a situational ability gets nowhere near those formats' threat bars. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander environment where it could pull weight, specifically in Necron-flavored artifact builds that actually want the token generation. Outside of Commander and niche Oathbreaker lists, leave it on the shelf.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't available for Lokhust Heavy Destroyer at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current number before buying. Given its narrow home in Necron Commander lists, supply tends to move with Warhammer 40,000 precon interest, so local game store singles are often the cheapest route.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.