Ruin Processor
Creature — Eldrazi Processor
When you cast this spell, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, you gain 5 life.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #18241
Ruin Processor trades a 7/8 body and a 5-life gain for nine mana and an exile-zone tax — the payoff is real, but the cost is brutal outside dedicated Eldrazi Processor shells. Run it only if you're already exiling your own cards and need a cheap-to-acquire finisher that incidentally gains life.
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, Ruin Processor slots into Eldrazi tribal builds or any deck that exiles cards as a resource — processors are nearly unplayable without a consistent exile engine feeding them. In Pauper, where it's legal, a 7/8 for nine is simply too slow against aggressive or combo-oriented fields unless you've engineered the exile condition reliably. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have the tools to support processors but also have far more efficient threats, so Ruin Processor almost never makes those cuts. Pioneer is the one non-rotating format where a budget Eldrazi beatdown build might squeeze value from it, but competitive lists there prefer cheaper, more impactful bodies. Treat it as a Commander-or-casual-only card regardless of technical legality elsewhere.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Ruin Processor is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. That price is stable by inertia rather than play demand, so don't expect it to move in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.