Baxter Stockman
Legendary Creature — Human Scientist
When Baxter Stockman enters, create a 1/1 colorless Robot artifact creature token.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target artifact creature you control gets +3/+0 and gains first strike and vigilance until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #25003
Baxter Stockman enters the battlefield and immediately creates a Fly token, giving you a body and an artifact on the same card for three mana. The combo ceiling is real — Nim Deathmantle loops are accessible here — but the base rate is fair rather than broken.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Baxter Stockman lives almost entirely in Commander, where the combination of artifact synergies, token generation, and reanimation loops has enough support to matter. In Constructed formats like Standard, Pioneer, and Modern he's legal but competes against far more efficient three-drops with no meaningful payoff for his specific token-plus-artifact package. Legacy and Vintage don't want a 3/3 for three with a delayed upside. Commander is where Baxter Stockman actually does his work.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Nim DeathmantleAshnod's AltarBaxter Stockman
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Baxter Stockman is firmly bulk — a throw-in in any trade binder. Bulk rares with genuine combo applications do occasionally tick up if a synergy deck goes viral, but at this price the question isn't whether to buy it; it's whether you remember to.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.