Rubblebelt Recluse
Creature — Ogre Berserker
This creature attacks each combat if able.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica Allegiance
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #28070
Rubblebelt Recluse enters as a 4/4 reach creature for four mana — a fine rate on its own — but its real job is accumulating +1/+1 counters every time a creature with power 4 or greater enters under your control. In counter-stacking and Gruul stompy builds, that snowball effect turns it from a passable body into a genuine threat within two or three turns.
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 |
Rubblebelt Recluse is a Commander card through and through — the counter-accumulation trigger needs a critical mass of large creatures entering over multiple turns, and that's exactly the environment 100-card singleton provides. In Pauper it's legal but competes in a format where four mana for a creature demands immediate board impact, and the conditional growth rarely delivers fast enough. Modern, Legacy, and Vintage have zero interest; those formats don't give a slow-growing 4/4 the runway it needs. Stick to Commander, specifically in Gruul or +1/+1 counter strategies where the trigger fires consistently.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Rubblebelt Recluse is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy singles. That price is stable because demand is narrow, but there's essentially no downside to picking up copies for any deck that wants it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.