Ruin Grinder
Ruin Grinder: Artifact Creature - Construct, Commander 2021. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {5}{R}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Artifact Creature - Construct
- Colour identity
- Red (R)
- Power / toughness
- 7/4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Commander 2021 (C21)
- Released
- 2021-04-23
- Collector number
- 57
- Artist
- Hector Ortiz
- Commander rank
- 4,929 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Mountaincycling, Landcycling, Menace, Typecycling, Cycling
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About Ruin Grinder
Ruin Grinder is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare red artifact creature from Commander 2021 (C21), a Commander product released in April 2021. It is collector number 57 in that set, with art by Hector Ortiz. It costs {5}{R} (five generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 7/4 creature. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 4 sets, from The List (2020) to Final Fantasy Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.38 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Menace
When this creature dies, each player may discard their hand and draw seven cards.
Mountaincycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.38 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Ruin Grinder by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Ruin Grinder
Ruin Grinder has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) #297 | Rare | 2025 |
| The List (PLST) #C21-57 | Rare | 2022 |
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #90114 | Rare | 2021 |
| Commander 2021 (C21) #384 | Rare | 2021 |
Official rulings
One official ruling applies to Ruin Grinder.
- Players decide and announce in turn order, starting with the active player, whether or not they want to discard their hand. Then, all players who chose to do so discard their hands and draw seven cards. Players later in the turn order will know if players before them are discarding, but they don't get to see what those players will discard to help them decide whether to discard themselves.
Similar cards
Other artifact creature cards with a red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Ruin Grinder is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.