Battery Bearer
Creature — Human Artificer
Creatures you control have "
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. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell."
Whenever you cast an artifact spell with mana value 6 or greater, draw a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #24617
Battery Bearer turns every creature you cast into a charge counter factory, letting you stockpile energy on any artifact that cares about counters the moment it enters the battlefield. Four mana for a 1/4 body is a real cost, but if you're running a counter-hungry artifact package, this effect pays for itself fast.
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 |
Battery Bearer is a Commander card through and through — the payoff compounds over a long game with multiple casts, which is exactly the environment Commander provides. In 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, the four-mana investment for a passive counter-generation effect is far too slow, and dedicated counter or artifact strategies have tighter, more efficient pieces to fill that slot. Pioneer is the same story: the body is undersized for the cost, and nothing in the format's artifact shells is hungry enough for this effect to matter. Commander is where Battery Bearer earns its slot, specifically in artifact-heavy decks that have a critical mass of charge-counter payoffs already assembled.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
Battery Bearer sits at $0.05 — deep bulk, with no scarcity propping it up. At that price you're paying for the effect and nothing else, and since the effect only matters in a narrow slice of artifact Commander decks, don't expect demand to move the needle.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.