Miner's Bane
Creature — Elemental
: This creature gets +1/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2015
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #28928
Miner's Bane is a 6/4 Elemental with trample that costs five mana — passable stats for the price, but nothing that demands a slot. It does its job as a vanilla-adjacent beater and nothing more.
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 |
Miner's Bane sees essentially no competitive play across any format — a 6/4 trample for five is below the rate Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy demand from their five-drops. In Pauper it's legal but outclassed by commons that provide more than raw stats. Commander is the only home where it could theoretically appear, and even there it's a filler beater in decks that want large Elementals or trample synergies, though better options exist at every price point.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Miner's Bane is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. That price is stable simply because demand is flat; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.