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Wreck Hunter

Creature — Human Artificer

Flash
When this creature enters, choose target player. You create a tapped Powerstone token for each nonland card in that player's graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

CMC
2
Mana cost
{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
The Brothers' War Commander
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#17398
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Wreck Hunter card art
Wreck Hunter enters the battlefield and immediately recovers an artifact from any graveyard — a repeatable effect when you pair it with blink engines like Eldrazi Displacer. The cost is a four-mana 3/3 body that does nothing without a graveyard to target, which means it earns its slot in dedicated recursion shells, specifically Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist, and almost nowhere else.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

25.6% of decks · synergy 0.25

Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist turns discarded artifacts into fodder and wants them back, making Wreck Hunter a natural fit — blink it with the Flesh Mechanist's own suite of flicker effects and you're looping artifacts into and out of the graveyard every turn.

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

Wreck Hunter is a Commander card — full stop. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes against faster, cheaper artifact recursion that doesn't require a four-mana body to show up. In Commander, the enters-the-battlefield trigger is infinitely reusable, and the graveyard access hits any player's pile, which gives it real reach in a four-player game. Outside of a dedicated Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist build or a blink-heavy artifact shell, even Commander applications are narrow.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Wreck Hunter is deep bulk — low acquisition cost, no barrier to picking up a copy. Bulk rares with a single narrow home tend to stay in this range unless the commander they support spikes in popularity.

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