Cogwork Spy
Artifact Creature — Bird Construct
Reveal this card as you draft it. You may look at the next card drafted from this booster pack.
Flying
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Conspiracy
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #30265
Cogwork Spy enters the battlefield and immediately lets you look at the top card of any player's library, giving you free information with zero mana investment beyond the one blue to cast it. The payoff is narrow — it's a 1/1 with no evasion — so Cogwork Spy earns its slot only in decks that can abuse the artifact type or loop enter-the-battlefield effects.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Cogwork Spy is strictly a synergy piece — it shows up in artifact-matters decks, Affinity shells, and anywhere that wants cheap artifacts entering the battlefield repeatedly. The information clause is a nice bonus but rarely the reason to run it. In Pauper, the common artifact tag gives it more traction, especially in Affinity lists that want every cheap artifact they can find. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested — Cogwork Spy does nothing at a competitive power level. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: worth considering only if the commander or signature spell rewards cheap artifact ETBs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Cogwork Spy is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not a singles list. Price stability is essentially guaranteed at this floor; it will not go up meaningfully unless a broken artifact combo breaks out around it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.