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Brass Gnat

Artifact Creature — Insect

Flying
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {1}. If you do, untap this creature.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
Time Spiral
Price
$0.09
EDHREC rank
#22588
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Brass Gnat card art
Brass Gnat is a one-mana 1/1 flyer that taps itself at the start of your upkeep unless you pay one — a negligible recurring cost that only matters if you're mana-starved. In flying-tribal shells like Errant and Giada it fills the one-drop slot and triggers lord effects, but it's the weakest card competing for that space.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Brass Gnat is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees meaningful play in essentially none of them. In Commander it shows up only in dedicated flying-tribal builds where raw flyer count matters more than card quality. In Pauper the one-mana flyer slot is fiercely contested by cards with no drawback whatsoever, and Brass Gnat doesn't make the cut. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.09 bulk tier

At $0.09, Brass Gnat is deep bulk — the kind of card that shows up in a collection binder, not a cart. There's no demand pressure pushing this higher, so expect it to stay at floor pricing indefinitely.

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