Synth Eradicator
Artifact Creature — Synth Soldier
Haste
Whenever this creature attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may get 
(two energy counters). If you don't, you may play that card this turn.
, Pay : This creature deals 3 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #7995
Synth Eradicator lands on the board and immediately taxes every non-Synth creature your opponents control, turning their own battlefield into a liability. The cost is real — you need a critical mass of Synths to make the symmetry hurt them more than you — but in the right shell, Liberty Prime, Recharged being the obvious flagship, this card does exactly what it promises.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Liberty Prime, Recharged
Liberty Prime, Recharged is the natural home: Synth Eradicator's tribal tax punishes opponents who aren't running Synths while Liberty Prime's token-generating and artifact-matters engine keeps your side of the table immune, making every attack step a political nightmare for everyone else at the table.
Dr. Madison Li
Dr. Madison Li assembles Synths through card draw and incremental artifact production, so Synth Eradicator arrives into a board state already stocked with enough Synths to make the upkeep tax one-sided in practice.
Satya, Aetherflux Genius
Satya, Aetherflux Genius copies artifacts and tokens for burst value, and Synth Eradicator fits as a taxing body that compounds pressure while Satya is flooding the board — the synergy score is lower, but the role is clean.
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 |
Commander is the correct home for Synth Eradicator: the three-opponent table multiplies the tax's reach, and tribal Synth density is high enough in Fallout-adjacent builds to make the symmetry hurt. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — the effect is too slow and too parasitic for those formats' threat density. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table. Oathbreaker is legal and theoretically viable in a dedicated Synth build, though the singleton format's lower redundancy makes the tribal prerequisite harder to meet consistently.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Synth Eradicator isn't currently available in the system, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its high inclusion rate in Liberty Prime, Recharged decks, demand is real — don't assume it's bulk without verifying.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Liberty Prime, Recharged
- Dr. Madison Li
- Satya, Aetherflux Genius
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.