Buzz Bots
Artifact Creature — Robot Insect
Flying, vigilance
When this creature dies, draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #20416
Buzz Bots enters with a tapped artifact token for each opponent, converting a slow enter-the-battlefield into a board presence that scales with table size. The four-mana cost is fair for what you get in a four-player pod, but it earns its slot only in decks that care about artifacts or token quantity specifically.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Buzz Bots reliably produces three 1/1 artifact tokens at a four-player table, which makes it a reasonable roleplayer in artifact-matters or go-wide strategies rather than a staple. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, a four-mana sorcery-speed effect that produces a single tapped token against one opponent is simply too slow to matter. Pauper is where the commons ceiling is lowest, but even there the format's efficient threats and removal make Buzz Bots a fringe consideration at best. Standard gives it the most charitable environment among 60-card formats, purely because the card pool is shallow enough that token generation at this rate occasionally finds a home.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Buzz Bots is deep bulk — you're essentially paying for the cardboard. That price reflects the card's narrow application accurately, and there's no meaningful demand driver that would push it higher.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.