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Ruthless Technomancer

Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature you control. If you do, create a number of Treasure tokens equal to that creature's power.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice X artifacts: Return target creature card with power X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. X can't be 0.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Neon Dynasty Commander
Price
$4.01
EDHREC rank
#2016
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Ruthless Technomancer card art
Ruthless Technomancer converts your creature count directly into Treasures and reanimates something equal in size — a two-for-one that can close games or launch combo turns the moment it resolves. The cost is a five-mana body with no protection, so it dies to the same removal that was already in the air. Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver and Inalla, Archmage Ritualist both abuse the enter-the-battlefield trigger hard enough that the vulnerability barely matters.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Dargo, the ShipwreckerTymna the Weaver

Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver

91.7% of decks · synergy 0.90

Ruthless Technomancer is a cornerstone of the Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver shell — the Treasures it generates reduce Dargo's cost to near zero, fueling the sacrifice loops that make the deck competitive. The 91% inclusion rate says it all: this isn't a flex slot, it's infrastructure.

02
Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder

Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder

63.7% of decks · synergy 0.59

Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder wants a constant stream of Treasures and artifact fodder, and Ruthless Technomancer supplies both while also threatening a reanimate on entry. The 64% inclusion rate reflects how cleanly it advances two of Evereth's axes at once.

03
Yargle and Multani

Yargle and Multani

42.0% of decks · synergy 0.40

Yargle and Multani is one of the largest base-power creatures in the format, so Ruthless Technomancer's reanimate clause — which scales off the number of creatures you control — can return something enormous for free. The Treasures help push through the mana needed to recast Yargle and Multani after inevitable removal.

04
Imskir Iron-Eater

Imskir Iron-Eater

41.0% of decks · synergy 0.37

Imskir Iron-Eater wants cheap sacrifice fodder on demand, and the Treasure tokens Ruthless Technomancer produces serve as both colored mana and bodies to feed the engine. The reanimation clause gives the deck a resilience line when the graveyard fills up during the combo turn.

05
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

36.7% of decks · synergy 0.35

Inalla, Archmage Ritualist triggers on Wizards entering the battlefield, and Ruthless Technomancer is a Wizard — meaning Inalla can fork the ETB for one mana, doubling both the Treasure production and the potential reanimate target. At 37% inclusion it's not universal, but in builds leaning on the ETB engine it's an easy inclusion.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Ruthless Technomancer actually lives — the format's longer games, larger boards, and graveyard density all make the ETB scale up to something genuinely threatening. Legacy and Vintage are both legal jurisdictions, but neither has any reason to run a five-mana creature with no immediate lock effect when the format is defined by two-mana spells and fast mana. Oathbreaker is the one fringe venue where Ruthless Technomancer could pull weight, specifically in black-red artifact or sacrifice shells that operate at similar power levels to the Commander decks where it shines. Outside those four formats, it's not legal.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

890 decks
Slimefoot and SqueeRuthless TechnomancerViscera Seer

Slimefoot and SqueeRuthless TechnomancerViscera Seer

Infinite colored mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite scry 1; Infinite Treasure tokens; Return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield

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Price Context

Current price

$4.01 cheap tier

At $4.01, Ruthless Technomancer sits in the sweet spot where it's cheap enough to slot into a budget build but high enough that it's clearly doing real work — cards with no competitive demand don't hold $4. Given how deeply embedded it is in Dargo shells and artifact-combo lists, the floor is stable.

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