Honest Rutstein
When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
A ready-made Honest Rutstein decklist
Complete 100-card Golgari deck, free to read, with prices and buy links.
How Honest Rutstein decks play in EDH
Honest Rutstein is a Golgari commander in black and green costing 1BG, and its legendary creature - human warlock line shapes the whole deck around it. It works out of the graveyard, so self-mill and cheap recursion effectively become extra card advantage. The cards below are the ones Honest Rutstein decks actually play most often, grouped by the job they do.
Most-played cards
20 cards · about $57.47Play rates from EDHREC. Prices from Scryfall, refreshed daily.
Ramp (4)
Card draw (4)
Removal (2)
Creatures (10)
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Grimoire generates a complete, Commander-legal Honest Rutstein decklist with a written strategy, a full mana base and live prices — from the whole card pool, or only from cards you already own.
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What colours can I use in a Honest Rutstein deck?
Honest Rutstein has a Golgari colour identity, so every card in the deck must be black and green or colourless. That includes mana symbols in rules text, not just casting cost.
What are the best cards for Honest Rutstein?
The cards played most often in Honest Rutstein decks include Avacyn, Angel of Horror, Primal Witchstalker, Radagast of Rhosgobel. The full list of staples above is grouped by the job each card does, so you can see the deck's skeleton rather than just a pile of names.
How much does a Honest Rutstein deck cost?
The 20 most-played cards shown above come to roughly $57.47 at current market prices. A complete 100-card build costs more, and Grimoire can generate a budget version instead if you set a price ceiling.
Can I build a Honest Rutstein deck from cards I already own?
Yes. Import your collection into Grimoire and choose "my cards" when you build. The generator will only use cards you actually own, and the Missing Cards page shows what you would need to buy to finish any list.