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Ruination Guide

Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.)
Other colorless creatures you control get +1/+0.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Battle for Zendikar
Price
$0.08
EDHREC rank
#19162
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Ruination Guide card art
Ruination Guide pumps every Eldrazi Scion and Eldrazi Spawn you control and gives them menace — that's a threat multiplier stapled to evasion for three mana. Skittering Precursor alone can flood the board with tokens that hit for three each, and Ruination Guide is why that flood closes games instead of just looking scary.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Ruination Guide earns its slot, slotting cleanly into any Eldrazi token strategy that makes Scions or Spawn as a byproduct of casting big threats. Competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Vintage have faster, more redundant Eldrazi engines, so Ruination Guide rarely makes the cut over higher-impact pieces. Modern and Pioneer Eldrazi lists occasionally want the effect, but the card competes with more efficient tribal payoffs and usually loses that fight. In Commander, the three-player threat threshold and longer games give the anthem effect room to matter, which is where Ruination Guide is actually good.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.08 bulk tier

At $0.08, Ruination Guide is deep bulk — you're paying pennies for a card with a real role in the right shell. Bulk rares with tribal synergies rarely spike unless a precon or new set pushes the archetype, so expect the price to stay flat unless Eldrazi tokens get a major new support piece.

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