Consulate Turret
Artifact
: You get 
(an energy counter)., Pay : This artifact deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aether Revolt
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #15244
Consulate Turret enters tapped, produces one colorless mana per turn via Energy, and pings for 2 damage — three separate actions across multiple turns just to match what a Shock does at instant speed. Unless your deck has a specific reason to generate and consume Energy counters, this is a bulk rare doing bulk rare things.
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 |
Consulate Turret is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that breadth doesn't translate to relevance in any of them. In competitive formats like Legacy and Vintage, a three-mana artifact that taps for one colorless and pings for two over two turns doesn't come close to the bar. Pauper has tighter resource constraints, so the inefficiency is even more punishing there. Commander is the only home where Consulate Turret is plausible — specifically in dedicated Energy-matters decks where accumulating counters is the point — but even there it sits near the bottom of the inclusion list.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Consulate Turret is deep bulk — the price reflects demand accurately. It won't appreciate without a major Energy-matters Commander release pushing the archetype into the mainstream.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.