Clockwork Droid
Artifact Creature — Robot
You may exert this creature as it attacks. When you do, it can't be blocked this turn and you scry 1. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step. To scry 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #15499
Clockwork Droid is a vanilla 3/3 with ward 2 for five mana — passable stats, but the ward barely compensates for the cost inefficiency. Outside of decks that specifically care about Dalek creature type or artifact synergies, Clockwork Droid rarely earns its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Davros, Dalek Creator
Davros, Dalek Creator creates Dalek tokens when opponents lose life, and Clockwork Droid counts as a Dalek that comes down early enough to trigger that engine — making it one of the few commanders where Clockwork Droid's type line does real work.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Clockwork Droid is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in a five-mana 3/3 with ward 2. In Commander, it's a niche inclusion locked almost entirely to Dalek-tribal builds helmed by Davros, Dalek Creator — outside that shell, the rate is simply too poor to justify a slot. Oathbreaker shares the same verdict: the card does nothing broken and asks too much mana for what it returns.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Clockwork Droid sits firmly in bulk territory, which tracks for a narrow tribal piece with no competitive applications. Bulk commons and uncommons with a single-deck home rarely climb in price, so treat this as a cheap pickup for Dalek builds and nothing more.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.