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Automated Assembly Line

Artifact

Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you get {E} (an energy counter).
Pay {E}{E}{E}: Create a tapped 3/3 colorless Robot artifact creature token.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Fallout
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#6826
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Automated Assembly Line card art
Automated Assembly Line puts a repeatable artifact creature token factory on the battlefield — the kind of continuous threat that snowballs if opponents don't answer it immediately. The cost is real: it's a land slot doing creature work, which means it competes with colored sources, and decks without an artifact or energy payoff get almost nothing from it. If your commander is Dr. Madison Li or you're running Gonti's Aether Heart, it's an easy inclusion; otherwise it's a luxury.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Dr. Madison Li

Dr. Madison Li

78.5% of decks · synergy 0.73

Dr. Madison Li runs Automated Assembly Line in nearly 80% of builds because every Assembly Worker token it produces is free fuel for her artifact-matters engine, turning an otherwise passive land into a persistent threat generator that advances her game plan every turn.

02
Liberty Prime, Recharged

Liberty Prime, Recharged

73.1% of decks · synergy 0.68

Liberty Prime, Recharged wants a constant stream of artifacts to sacrifice and exile, and Automated Assembly Line delivers one for free each turn — making it a reliable, low-opportunity-cost piece of that resource loop without spending a card.

03
Satya, Aetherflux Genius

Satya, Aetherflux Genius

35.1% of decks · synergy 0.30

Satya, Aetherflux Genius values artifact tokens as both copy targets and energy triggers, and Automated Assembly Line provides a steady drip of both without occupying a spell slot — though the lower synergy score reflects that Satya has flashier ways to flood the board.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Automated Assembly Line is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through — a slow, incremental land that needs a full game to pay off. In Legacy and Vintage, a land that produces tokens rather than mana is a meaningful tempo cost in formats where the game can end on turn one or two, so it sees essentially no competitive play there. In Commander, the calculus flips: a 100-card singleton environment with four players rewards permanents that generate value across multiple turns, and Automated Assembly Line does exactly that for artifact and energy strategies. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer DNA, so the same logic applies — any deck that wants artifact tokens and can afford a colorless land slot has reason to run it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Automated Assembly Line isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for the current market rate. Given its narrow home in artifact-token and energy-focused Commander decks, demand is concentrated but real — expect pricing to reflect that specialization rather than broad staple status.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.