Card
Honest Rutstein
Mana cost {1}{B}{G}
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock 3/2
When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 122 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · OTJ · #207
- Cheapest printing
- €0.42
- EDHREC salt
- 0.19
- Color identity
- Black, Green
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
122 known combos.
- Scrap Trawler + Myr Retriever + Ashnod's Altar + Honest Rutstein
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Scrap Trawler + Myr Retriever + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Honest Rutstein
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Oathsworn Vampire + Phyrexian Altar + Honest Rutstein
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
Honest Rutstein’s last ability can’t reduce the amount of colored mana you pay for a spell. It reduces only the generic mana component of that spell’s cost. - 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
Honest Rutstein’s last ability doesn’t change the mana cost or mana value of any spell. It changes only the total cost you pay to cast creature spells.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast