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Currency Converter

Artifact

Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard.
{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{T}: Put a card exiled with this artifact into its owner's graveyard. If it's a land card, create a Treasure token. If it's a nonland card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Magic Online Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3559
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Currency Converter card art
Currency Converter turns every discard into a looting effect and every excess mana into card selection, which means it generates value passively in any shell that already wants to pitch cards. Ketramose, the New Dawn and Quintorius, History Chaser both exploit it as a low-investment engine that pays off across the whole game — two mana to put it in play, and it immediately starts converting resources you were spending anyway.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Quintorius, History Chaser

Quintorius, History Chaser

91.5% of decks · synergy 0.89

Quintorius, History Chaser triggers off spells cast from exile, and Currency Converter's looting keeps fueling that pipeline — exile a card, cast it, loot again, repeat. The 91% inclusion rate across Quintorius decks isn't surprising: it's one of the cleanest ways to keep the engine spinning.

02
Kamiz, Obscura Oculus

Kamiz, Obscura Oculus

33.6% of decks · synergy 0.32

Kamiz, Obscura Oculus rewards conniving and card filtering, and Currency Converter provides exactly that kind of steady, low-cost selection. It keeps the hand sculpted while generating the discard triggers other Kamiz pieces care about.

03
Ketramose, the New Dawn

Ketramose, the New Dawn

24.1% of decks · synergy 0.23

Ketramose, the New Dawn cares about drawing and discarding, and Currency Converter is among the cheapest repeatable ways to do both. Every activation is a Ketramose trigger, making this one of the most efficient pieces in the deck.

04
Queen Kayla bin-Kroog

Queen Kayla bin-Kroog

25.4% of decks · synergy 0.23

Queen Kayla bin-Kroog's activated ability pitches artifacts and creatures straight to the battlefield, and Currency Converter slots in as a cheap artifact that also helps sculpt the hand before Kayla fires. It's a two-for-one in a deck that already loves low-cost artifacts.

05
Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

22.0% of decks · synergy 0.21

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar requires discarding to pay costs, and Currency Converter converts those mandatory discards into card selection rather than raw card loss. Running it here turns a deckbuilding constraint into a repeatable advantage.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Currency Converter is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually gets played — the 100-card singleton format rewards cheap, repeatable draw engines more than any other, and Currency Converter's low entry cost fits neatly into that calculus. In Legacy and Vintage, the bar for a two-mana artifact that doesn't immediately impact the board is prohibitively high; faster cantrips and better card selection exist in abundance, and Currency Converter simply doesn't compete. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it could find a home, particularly in a spellslinger or discard-matters shell where the looting compounds over multiple turns.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Currency Converter isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the current market rate. Given its narrow but real niche in Commander discard and looting strategies, it tends to move with demand from new commander releases that care about those mechanics.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.