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Chief of the Foundry

Artifact Creature — Construct

Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Double Masters
Price
$0.21
EDHREC rank
#2865
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Chief of the Foundry card art
Chief of the Foundry pumps every artifact creature you control the moment it lands — no hoops, no conditions, just a static +1/+1 to the whole team. At three mana, it slots cleanly into any artifact-creature shell, and commanders like Sai, Master Thopterist and Karn, Silver Golem treat it as a baseline include rather than a consideration.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sai, Master Thopterist

Sai, Master Thopterist

52.5% of decks · synergy 0.50

Sai, Master Thopterist converts every artifact cast into a 1/1 Thopter token, and Chief of the Foundry turns that stream of 1/1s into a legitimate aerial threat — the anthem effect scales directly with how fast Sai floods the board.

03
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

43.0% of decks · synergy 0.41

Leonardo da Vinci generates Flying Machine tokens whenever you tap down, and Chief of the Foundry gives every one of them a free size bump — the more tokens da Vinci produces, the more return Chief squeezes out.

04
Urza, Chief Artificer

Urza, Chief Artificer

40.2% of decks · synergy 0.38

Urza, Chief Artificer gives all your artifact creatures menace, so Chief of the Foundry's anthem converts what would have been chump-blocked threats into difficult-to-stop combat math.

05
Traxos, Scourge of Kroog

Traxos, Scourge of Kroog

45.2% of decks · synergy 0.34

Traxos, Scourge of Kroog is already a massive beater that untaps off historic spells, and Chief of the Foundry joining the board as an artifact creature both untaps Traxos and adds a +1/+1 to any other artifact creatures swinging alongside it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Chief of the Foundry earns its keep — artifact-creature tribal is a real archetype at the format's scale, and a three-mana global anthem that is itself an artifact creature compounds well with token generators and aristocrats lines. In Modern and Pioneer, it competes against cheaper and more explosive payoffs in artifact shells, so it rarely makes the cut outside of budget builds or dedicated Constructs strategies. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient anthem effects, pushing Chief of the Foundry out of those formats entirely on power grounds. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic closely enough that the same artifact-heavy shells where Chief thrives in one format will want it in the other.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.21 bulk tier

At $0.21, Chief of the Foundry is firmly bulk — you can pick up copies without a second thought on price. It has been reprinted enough times that this floor is stable; don't expect meaningful price movement in either direction.

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