Rust Harvester
Artifact Creature — Robot
Menace
, 
, Exile an artifact card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then it deals damage equal to its power to any target.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Edge of Eternities Promos
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #15687
Rust Harvester trades artifact tokens for life and a body on the board, turning incidental clues, treasures, and food into a steady drain engine. The three-mana cost is negligible when your deck is already generating that fodder for free.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Rust Harvester slots cleanly into any artifact-token shell — treasures from Prosper, Tome-Bound or Magda, Brazen Outlaw, clues from Lonis, Cryptozoologist, food from Gyome, Master Chef — anywhere sacrificial artifacts accumulate as a byproduct of the game plan. The life drain is incidental but real at a table of four opponents, and the 3/3 body is a credible blocker. Outside Commander, Rust Harvester competes in a much tighter field: Pioneer and Modern both have enough artifact synergy to make it functional, but dedicated sacrifice payoffs at this mana cost face stiff competition for slots. Standard is the format where it's most likely to see genuine play, contingent on whether a treasure or artifact-token theme has the critical mass to support it in a given environment.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Rust Harvester is deep bulk — you're paying for playability, not scarcity. Bulk rares with narrow archetype fit rarely climb without a format breakout, so pick up copies for active decks now and don't expect the price to move much on its own.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.