Stone of Erech
Legendary Artifact
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
, 
, Sacrifice Stone of Erech: Exile target player's graveyard. Draw a card.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #3425
Stone of Erech shuts down graveyard recursion and token-copying effects at instant speed for a single colorless mana — the effect is real and the cost is almost nothing. It's a staple in Umbris, Fear Manifest builds that want to exile rather than mill, and a reasonable inclusion in any deck that punishes opponents for leaning on their yard.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Umbris, Fear Manifest
Umbris, Fear Manifest exiles cards from libraries and graveyards to grow, and Stone of Erech locks opponents out of the recursion and copy effects that would let them recover from that pressure — it's a direct enabler of the nightmare the deck is trying to create.
Meria, Scholar of Antiquity
Meria, Scholar of Antiquity runs Stone of Erech as a cheap artifact to tap for mana via her activated ability, making it functional ramp that also happens to blank graveyard strategies at zero tempo cost.
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider cares about artifacts entering play and interacting with them, and Stone of Erech fills a cheap artifact slot while providing a hate effect that pays off in any graveyard-heavy pod.
Queen Kayla bin-Kroog
Queen Kayla bin-Kroog's ability discards and deploys low-cost artifacts and creatures, and Stone of Erech fits cleanly into that curve as a zero-cost-equivalent piece that doubles as graveyard disruption.
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 |
Commander is where Stone of Erech earns its keep — graveyard recursion, Reanimate effects, and token doublers are everywhere in the format, and a colorless one-mana artifact that answers all of them at instant speed is easy to slot into any deck with a graveyard hate subtheme. In Legacy and Vintage, dedicated hate pieces like Rest in Peace and Leyline of the Void do the job more thoroughly, so Stone of Erech rarely makes the cut outside of fringe artifact-matters builds. It's legal in Oathbreaker with the same logic as Commander — fine role-player, rarely the best option available. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper don't have access to it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Stone of Erech is bulk — you're not paying for the effect, you're basically getting it free. That price is stable; it's not a card with spike potential, but it's cheap enough that there's no reason to skip it if the effect fits your deck.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Umbris, Fear Manifest
- Meria, Scholar of Antiquity
- Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
- Queen Kayla bin-Kroog
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.