Rubblebelt Runner
Creature — Lizard Warrior
This creature can't be blocked by creature tokens.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica Allegiance
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28108
Rubblebelt Runner enters as a 0/0 and grows by +1/+1 for each land you control, so in a deck with 40 lands it's already a 40/40 the turn it comes down. The mana cost is the catch — seven mana for a vanilla beatstick with no evasion means it only belongs in decks that can cash in on that size immediately.
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 |
In Commander, Rubblebelt Runner belongs in landfall and lands-matter shells that can reliably hit seven or eight mana and have ways to push damage through — think trample enablers or evasion grants. Outside Commander, it's nearly unplayable: Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy all move too fast for a seven-mana do-nothing threat, and even Pauper, where the card is legal, has more efficient options at common. The Runner's ceiling is a one-shot kill in a big-mana Commander list, and its floor is a blank.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Rubblebelt Runner is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. That price is stable for exactly the reason you'd expect: virtually no competitive market exists for it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.