Honest Rutstein

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock

When Honest Rutstein enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (5)

NomadicJoe96 on Bandonkadonking - Verb: "To Hit With Butt"

5 months ago

Hey, building a Doran deck right now myself! Be aware, if you aren't already, for cards like MacCready, Lamplight Mayor, the skulk ability is checked during the declare blockers step, so if Doran buffs your creatures, it may allow your opponent to block them easier than you may be intending (chump block, deathtouch, etc) !

I like the "legendary butts" theme you've got going though ! Some cards I've found to be quite good with Doran:

Genji Glove - Multiple combats, multiple Doran triggers

Noetic Scales - Synergizes with your card draw theme

Tawnos's Wand - Skulk (that only checks before blockers) on a stick

Kusari-Gama - asymmetric boardwipe that you can pump into

Sacred Rites - A terribly niche card that turns into an 'overrun' strat when paired with your immense card draw

Hakoda, Selfless Commander - Legendary, big butt, top deck, sac to protect+overrun.

Honest Rutstein - Legendary, recursion, and cost reduction

Yargle and Multani or Jumbo Cactuar - For the meme of attacking with a 30/18 creature or... a 19,993/10,000 creature

Elnxida on Cost Reduction Cards

1 year ago

I've noticed a few* omissions, namely effects that let you pay an alternate cost - which can be less than the regular cost (Zombie creaturess: Rooftop Storm) or reduced by other effects (Samurai: Kentaro, the Smiling Cat).

*Yeah, so I decided to do a proper search and it bloated into more than a "few"... Sorry for the wall of text, but here you go!

You've already got Fist of Suns and Jodah, but here are some less ubiquitous ones:

Echo: Thick-Skinned Goblin

Slowly Increasing 1/turn: As Foretold

Runes: Runeforge Champion

Fist of Suns and Jodah-like: Leyline of Mutation

Alchemy, Dragons: Sarkhan, Wanderer to Shiv

Pay life instead as Activated Ability: Marshland Bloodcaster

Alchemy, cards you don't own 1/turn: Grenzo, Crooked Jailer

From Exile 1/turn: Charred Foyer / Warped Space

Colorless 1/turn: Darksteel Monolith

Creature from exile 1/turn: Tlincalli Hunter

Conditional, Cycling: New Perspectives

Pay life instead 1/turn: Cramped Vents / Access Maze

Additionally, other regular omissions:

Flash: Cunning Nightbonder

Instants and Sorceries: Voracious Reader  ^Flip

Creature spells: Krallenhorde Howler  ^Flip, Honest Rutstein

One Giant: Invasion of the Giants

Target me! (auras, buffs, mutate): Spellwild Ouphe, Elderwood Scion

First Kicked: Vine Gecko

Historic: Ballad of the Black Flag

Not your turn: Geyser Drake

Aura and Equipment: Golden-Tail Trainer

Next Spell (honorable mention?): Hardened Berserker, Saheeli, the Gifted

Pay counters instead: Mutated Cultist

Dragons: Nogi, Draco-Zealot

Alchemy, Dinosaurs: Scalespeaker Shepherd (Not sure why is isn't linking, but I promise it exists)

Alchemy, from graveyard: Shellfish Scholar

Instants and Sorceries MV5+: Spectacle Mage

Prepared: Uvilda, Dean of Perfection  ^Flip

Undaunted keyword: Durnan of the Yawning Portal

First instant/sorcery, conditional: Eluge, the Shoreless Sea, God-Eternal Kefnet

Alchemy, Goblin: Goblin Influx Array

Next instant/sorcery (honorable mention?): Maelstrom Muse

Face-down: Panoptic Projektor

Doctors: The Eleventh Hour

Cards from exile: Commander Liara Portyr

Next instant/sorcery, conditional: Elminster

Spells you don't own: Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

legendofa on EDH Pauper Suggestions

2 years ago

Honest Rutstein is an interesting card. It should be a lot of fun to build around.

Felipix on Grist commander deck need help

2 years ago

Guy I see your post and I really like your deck the only thing I want to say is, you really don't need Arasta of the Endless Web, Blex, Vexing Pest  ^Flip, Honest Rutstein, Izoni, Thousand-Eyed, Old Rutstein and Old Stickfingers. because these isn't insects. you may put some recursion on the deck (dont forget to add the grist to the command zone) and lhurgoyf stuff would be good to... take a look to the Lhurgoyfs

Please look my deck of kefnet if you can

Gidgetimer on EDH Merens Reanimator

2 years ago

Compy Swarm seems better to me. You want creatures to be dying anyway so you are going to be doubling up on Compy Swarm each of your end steps and it also gives easy sacrifice fodder to keep the experience flowing. Honest Rutstein does the bad half of your commander's ability and then discounts creatures, which you would probably rather reanimate than cast anyway.