Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
Whenever Ayesha Tanaka attacks, look at the top four cards of your library. You may put any number of artifact cards with mana value less than or equal to Ayesha Tanaka's power from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Ayesha Tanaka can't be blocked as long as defending player controls three or more artifacts.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dominaria United Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #19017
Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer locks down activated abilities on artifacts your opponents control — a static tax that scales hard in artifact-heavy metas without requiring any setup. The cost is a narrow color identity (Azorius) and a body that won't survive a stiff breeze, but the effect is real.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer actually matters — artifact combo is endemic to the format, and a repeatable static lock on activated abilities hits Blinkmoth Urn, Unwinding Clock payoffs, and engines like Staff of Domination cold. In Legacy and Vintage, the effect is real but the competition is brutal: those formats move faster than a 2/2 for three can stabilize a board, and dedicated artifact hate has cheaper, more explosive options. Oathbreaker narrows the field enough that Ayesha could find a home as a support piece in a white-blue artifacts signature-spell shell. Anywhere she's legal, the question is speed — she rewards slower, more interactive tables and punishes the exact kind of artifact-combo decks that dominate powered play.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying. Given her niche but genuine utility in Commander artifact matchups, she tends to attract interest from control and stax players — worth confirming she's in stock at your local game store before hunting singles online.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.