Cid, Timeless Artificer
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
Artifact creatures and Heroes you control get +1/+1 for each Artificer you control and each Artificer card in your graveyard.
A deck can have any number of cards named Cid, Timeless Artificer.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $2.63
- EDHREC rank
- #13032
Cid, Timeless Artificer turns every artifact you cast into a board-wide stat boost, and that effect compounds fast in artifact-heavy shells. G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn is currently the premier home, but any commander that floods the board with artifacts gets real mileage here.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn generates a stream of artifact tokens and recurs historic spells, which means Cid, Timeless Artificer's counter trigger fires repeatedly in a single turn cycle — the two cards form a self-reinforcing engine that scales with every artifact etb.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Cid, Timeless Artificer does its real work — a 100-card singleton format built around synergy packages is exactly the context where a repeatable, artifact-triggered pump effect turns into a wincon. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy, three mana for a conditional anthem without immediate board impact is too slow to see serious play. Pioneer and Standard are theoretically legal homes, but artifact aggro there demands more immediate pressure than Cid provides on its own. Oathbreaker could support it in the right artifact storm shell, but the card's ceiling is firmly in Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.63 cheap tier
At $2.63, Cid, Timeless Artificer sits in the cheap tier — low enough that it's an easy include in any artifact Commander deck without a second thought. It's a new card from a high-profile Final Fantasy set, so the price reflects early supply; it won't spike, but it's unlikely to crater much further either.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.