Assembly-Worker
Artifact Creature — Assembly-Worker
: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #26907
Assembly-Worker taps to give another Assembly-Worker +1/+1 until end of turn — a tribal pump ability that only matters if you're running multiples and attacking with them simultaneously. Outside a dedicated Assembly-Worker tribal shell, this is a vanillа 2/2 for three mana with no impact on the board alone.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Assembly-Worker has no competitive home in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern — a 2/2 for three with a narrow tribal activated ability doesn't clear the bar in any of those formats. Pauper is its most plausible non-Commander appearance, but even there it doesn't fit an established archetype. In Commander, Assembly-Worker is theoretically interesting in an artifact-creature tribal deck, but the support density is too thin to build around — Urza and Memnarch commanders care about artifacts broadly, not this specific creature type. It's legal everywhere that counts and playable in essentially none of them.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Assembly-Worker is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. That price won't move unless a future set introduces enough Assembly-Worker tribal support to make the synergy relevant, which is not a bet worth making.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.