Aeronaut Tinkerer
Creature — Human Artificer
This creature has flying as long as you control an artifact. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2015
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #27460
Aeronaut Tinkerer is a 2/3 flier for three mana whenever you control an artifact or Vehicle — a reasonable stat line that evaporates the moment you don't. Outside of a dedicated artifact shell, it's a vanilla 2/1 for three, and that's not a card you ever want to cast.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aeronaut Tinkerer is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, artifact-heavy decks like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Shorikai, Genesis Engine can reliably trigger the flying clause, but those decks have far better three-drops competing for the slot. In Pauper, where commons live and die by efficiency, a conditional 2/3 flier for three faces stiff competition from creatures that don't require a board state to function. Aeronaut Tinkerer is the kind of card that looks fine on paper and underperforms at the table.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Aeronaut Tinkerer is deep bulk — the floor of Magic card prices. Don't expect that to change; conditional three-mana creatures without tournament history don't recover value.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.