Bonded Construct
Artifact Creature — Construct
This creature can't attack alone.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic Origins
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #21926
Bonded Construct is a one-mana 2/1 artifact creature that can't attack alone — a restriction that barely matters when you're flooding the board with tokens or artifacts. It's a role-player in go-wide and artifact-synergy decks, not a card that wins games on its own.
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, Bonded Construct earns its slot almost exclusively in artifact-tribal or token-swarm decks where the can't-attack-alone clause is irrelevant by turn three. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive consideration, as a one-mana artifact body that fuels affinity and metalcraft strategies at common. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, it's strictly outclassed — better one-drops with no strings attached exist at every turn. Bonded Construct is legal across nearly every format but relevant in very few.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Bonded Construct is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that was never expected to carry a price tag. That price is stable in the sense that it has nowhere lower to go, but don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.