Ruination Rioter
Creature — Human Berserker
When this creature dies, you may have it deal damage to any target equal to the number of land cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #24154
Ruination Rioter hits every player for damage equal to the number of lands in your graveyard the moment a land dies — in a lands-matter deck, that's a lethal trigger waiting to happen. Borborygmos Enraged decks that are already pitching lands to the graveyard constantly will find this is one of the highest-damage-per-mana cards available at two mana.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Borborygmos Enraged
Borborygmos Enraged discards lands to deal damage, and every land that hits the graveyard through looting, fetchlands, or self-mill pumps the Ruination Rioter trigger — the two cards form a parallel damage engine that forces opponents to race two clocks simultaneously.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ruination Rioter is a Commander card through and through — 100-card singleton gives you the redundant land-sacrifice and self-mill effects needed to make the triggered ability consistently lethal. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; those formats don't spend two mana on a 2/2 that requires a specific graveyard condition to matter. Commander is where the payoff lands, specifically in Gruul landfall and lands-matter builds where land counts in the graveyard routinely reach double digits by the midgame.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Ruination Rioter is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a common box, not a singles binder. Bulk rares with narrow homes rarely climb unless a new commander pushes the archetype into the spotlight, so don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Borborygmos Enraged
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.