Stabilizer
Artifact
Players can't cycle cards.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Scourge
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #30237
Stabilizer shuts off cycling for everyone at the table for two mana — a narrow but absolute effect that blanks entire card-filtering packages. Run it only when your meta is thick with cycling payoffs; otherwise it's a do-nothing artifact that clogs your hand.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Stabilizer occupies a tight hate-piece role targeting decks built around Slippery Bogle-adjacent cycling engines or commanders like Gavi, Nest Warden and Akim, the Soaring Wind that depend on cycling to function. It's a two-mana lock that costs your opponents card selection every turn — meaningful enough to board against the right pod, irrelevant against the wrong one. Legacy and Vintage both have cycling-dense archetypes where Stabilizer could theoretically appear in sideboards, but faster and broader hate pieces crowd it out. Oathbreaker shares Commander's pod-reading dynamic, so the same logic applies at smaller scale.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Stabilizer is deep bulk — acquire it without a second thought if the effect is relevant to your meta. Price stability is a non-issue; this card has no spike potential and will stay at this floor indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.