Honest Rutstein
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature spells you cast cost 1 less to cast.
Combos with Honest Rutstein
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Aethersnipe Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Oathsworn Vampire Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Evolution Witness Myr Scrapling Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Morophon, the Boundless Moritte of the Frost Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Scrap Trawler Myr Retriever Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- The Sibsig Ceremony Myr Retriever Scrap Trawler Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Together Forever Ashnod's Altar Walking Ballista Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Appa, Steadfast Guardian Umori, the Collector Restoration Angel Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite creature tokens
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-04-12
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
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 are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Honest Rutstein, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist | 1 | 7 | 14.3% |
| Pizza Face, Gastromancer | 1 | 2 | — |
| The Mycotyrant | 1 | 1 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Golgari 2 decks
- Sultai 1 deck
Every version of Honest Rutstein
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
- Normal
- $0.38
- Foil
- $0.37
Inverted
- Normal
- $1.04
- Foil
- $5.43
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Honest Rutstein — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.