Artificer's Dragon
Artifact Creature — Dragon
Flying
: Artifact creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
Unearth 
(: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #17670
Artificer's Dragon lands as a 5/4 flier that enters with a relevant artifact tutor stapled to it — that's a lot of cardboard for one card. The six-mana ask is steep, but in any Commander deck that wants both a threat and artifact consistency, it pulls real weight.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Artificer's Dragon is squarely a Commander card — the artifact-tutoring trigger rewards the singleton format where finding a specific piece matters, and six mana is far more manageable across a long multiplayer game. In Modern or Legacy, a six-mana 5/4 with no immediate board protection doesn't survive long enough to matter, and Pioneer offers nothing to justify the slot over faster threats. Oathbreaker follows the Commander logic closely enough that it's playable there too, though the 20-life format moves faster and punishes the curve harder.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Artificer's Dragon sits firmly in bulk territory — you're getting a lot of card for almost nothing. Bulk rares with niche Commander appeal tend to stay cheap unless a popular commander pushes demand, so don't expect the price to move meaningfully.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.