Bastion Inventor
Creature — Vedalken Artificer
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for 
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Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #27753
Bastion Inventor lands as a 4/4 hexproof for six mana — the hexproof is the point, making it nearly impossible to remove with targeted spells the turn it enters. The cost is steep for what you get, and it only earns its slot in artifact-synergy shells that reward the Improvise mechanic.
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 |
In Commander, Bastion Inventor is a niche role-player in dedicated artifact decks — Improvise scales well in a format full of mana rocks, and a hexproof 4/4 is genuinely hard to answer with targeted removal. Outside of Commander, it sees effectively no play: Pauper is its most plausible home given the common frame, but six mana for a vanilla-ish creature is too slow for that format's aggressive metagame. Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy have no interest in a six-drop that doesn't immediately impact the board beyond a protected body. Stick to Commander artifact lists as its natural habitat.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Bastion Inventor is deep bulk — a throw-in trade card with essentially no floor to fall through. It holds that price purely on casual Commander demand and won't appreciate without a breakout combo or reprint into a high-profile precon.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.