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Stoic Builder

Creature — Human

When this creature enters, you may return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Shadows over Innistrad
Price
$0.05
EDHREC rank
#26621
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Stoic Builder card art
Stoic Builder returns a basic land from your graveyard to hand — useful, but stapled to a 3-mana 2/3 that does nothing the turn it enters. The only context where that effect justifies the body is alongside Escape Protocol, where you can blink it repeatedly on demand and chain land returns into something meaningful.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Stoic Builder is a casual Commander card through and through. In 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Pauper — a 3-mana 2/3 with a single enter-the-battlefield trigger that only recovers a basic land is too slow and too narrow to compete. Commander is where Stoic Builder finds any traction at all, specifically in blink and flicker shells that can abuse the ETB repeatedly, or landfall decks that want repeated triggers from a single card.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.05 bulk tier

At $0.05, Stoic Builder is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box, not a store shelf. That price reflects the demand accurately and isn't going anywhere.

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