Component Collector
Creature — Homunculus
If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as this creature enters.
Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, you may tap or untap target nonland permanent.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #25731
Component Collector turns every kicker, overload, flashback, and other additional-cost spell into a free Treasure, which adds up fast in spell-heavy Commander builds. The two-mana body is forgettable, but the passive engine is the whole point.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Component Collector is a legitimate value engine in any deck that regularly pays kicker, overload, entwine, or X costs — one Treasure per qualifying spell compounds quickly over a long game. Outside Commander, the card struggles: Modern and Pioneer run efficient, streamlined spells where additional costs are the exception rather than the rule, and a 2/2 for two that occasionally makes a Treasure is too slow to matter. Legacy and Vintage have the same problem at a higher power ceiling — the formats move too fast for incremental artifact generation to be relevant. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where Component Collector could find a niche, specifically in kicker-heavy decks like Coiling Oracle builds or Rites of Refusal control, though it remains a fringe pick even there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Component Collector is pure bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile Commander deck puts it on the map.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.