Clockwork Percussionist
Artifact Creature — Monkey Toy
Haste
When this creature dies, exile the top card of your library. You may play it until the end of your next turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #8918
Clockwork Percussionist enters the battlefield and immediately puts a Banana token on each opponent's field, then drains life every time any artifact is sacrificed — on a 3/2 body for three mana, that's a lot of work for a single card. In Kibo, Uktabi Prince decks specifically, this is a core piece rather than a role-player, and in any artifact-sacrifice shell it generates value the turn it arrives.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kibo, Uktabi Prince
Kibo, Uktabi Prince turns every Banana token into a sacrifice target, and Clockwork Percussionist drains an opponent for each one that goes — the two cards form a self-contained engine that scales with the size of your table.
Arabella, Abandoned Doll
Arabella, Abandoned Doll pings opponents whenever you sacrifice artifacts, which stacks directly with the drain trigger on Clockwork Percussionist, letting a single sacrifice event deal damage from two sources simultaneously.
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 |
Clockwork Percussionist is legal across every major format but realistically lives in Commander, where multiplayer math makes the enter-the-battlefield drain and repeated sacrifice triggers compound fast. In 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — a three-mana 3/2 that drains for one per sacrifice isn't competitive when dedicated artifact-sacrifice shells have faster, more redundant payoffs available. Pauper is the one non-Commander format worth watching: common artifact-sacrifice synergies exist there, and a body that generates immediate value on entry is meaningful when the card pool is constrained. Standard currently supports it on paper, though the niche it wants is narrow enough that it's unlikely to see serious play outside of limited environments where any artifact synergy matters.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Clockwork Percussionist is firmly bulk, and given its narrow appeal outside Kibo and artifact-sacrifice Commander builds, there's no pressure driving that number up. Stock it cheaply while building the relevant decks — it's the kind of card that costs more to ship than to buy.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.