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Blasting Station

Artifact

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a creature enters, you may untap this artifact.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3423
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Blasting Station card art
Blasting Station turns any creature ETB/death loop into a game-ending ping machine — one damage at a time, but infinite times. The cost is real: it's a dead card without a combo partner, so Luminous Broodmoth and Darien, King of Kjeldor builds run it as a finisher, not a standalone threat.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Darien, King of Kjeldor

Darien, King of Kjeldor

42.0% of decks · synergy 0.40

Darien, King of Kjeldor creates a perfect closed loop with Blasting Station: shoot yourself, make soldiers, untap the Station, repeat until every opponent is at zero. It's one of the cleanest two-card win conditions in white.

02
Teysa, Orzhov Scion

Teysa, Orzhov Scion

35.7% of decks · synergy 0.34

Teysa, Orzhov Scion generates white creature tokens on black creature deaths, and Blasting Station converts those tokens into damage while untapping itself — a self-sustaining engine that can dome the table once the loop is established.

03
Gisa, the Hellraiser

Gisa, the Hellraiser

31.3% of decks · synergy 0.30

Gisa, the Hellraiser floods the board with Zombies on attack, giving Blasting Station a steady stream of sacrifice fodder and untap triggers to convert board presence into direct damage.

04
Yedora, Grave Gardener

Yedora, Grave Gardener

27.6% of decks · synergy 0.27

Yedora, Grave Gardener turns nontoken creature deaths into Forest tokens entering as creatures, and Blasting Station converts that continuous ETB chain into infinite pings with the right sacrifice outlet in the loop.

05
Celes, Rune Knight

Celes, Rune Knight

26.3% of decks · synergy 0.25

Celes, Rune Knight cares about creatures entering and leaving play repeatedly, and Blasting Station slots in as the win condition that converts those loop-friendly triggers into lethal damage.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Blasting Station is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it does essentially all of its work — the 100-card singleton format gives it access to the widest range of combo partners across every color. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically playable but sees next to no competitive play; those formats end games before artifact combo engines like this can assemble. Modern is the one constructed format where creature-loop strategies occasionally surface, but Blasting Station hasn't carved out a consistent home there. Treat it as a Commander card with legacy legality as a footnote.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Price data for Blasting Station isn't currently available in this listing, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market price before buying. It's a niche combo piece with a small but dedicated demand base, so prices can vary meaningfully between printings — confirming the edition before you buy is worth the extra thirty seconds.

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