Copper Gnomes
Artifact Creature — Gnome
, Sacrifice this creature: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $2.23
- EDHREC rank
- #20405
Copper Gnomes puts any artifact from your hand onto the battlefield — no mana cost paid — for eight mana total across two turns, and that ceiling is only worth crossing when the artifact you're cheating out costs nine or more. If you're not dropping something like Blightsteel Colossus or Darksteel Forge, Copper Gnomes is just an overpriced do-nothing.
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 |
Copper Gnomes sees essentially zero play in Legacy and Vintage despite being legal — faster, cheaper artifact cheating like Tinker makes it obsolete before it starts. Commander is the only format where it finds any traction, and even there it's a niche include: you need a dedicated big-artifact shell, a way to protect the Gnomes for a full rotation, and a payoff expensive enough to justify the eight-mana investment. Oathbreaker is legal but too fast a format for a two-turn setup piece to matter.
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Price Context
Current price
$2.23 cheap tier
At $2.23, Copper Gnomes sits in budget territory despite its narrow application. The price is unlikely to climb — demand is thin and the effect is too conditional to attract broad interest — so it's a safe pickup if you're building the exact shell that wants it.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.