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Daretti, Scrap Savant

Legendary Planeswalker — Daretti

+2: Discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards.
−2: Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−10: You get an emblem with "Whenever an artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step."
Daretti, Scrap Savant can be your commander.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Commander 2014
Price
$0.77
EDHREC rank
#1849
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Daretti, Scrap Savant card art
Daretti, Scrap Savant enters at four mana and immediately loots twice, then threatens to reanimate any artifact from your graveyard every turn after — that's a draw engine and recursion engine stapled to one card. Shells running Encroaching Mycosynth push him even further, turning every permanent into artifact fodder for his minus, and commanders like Osgir, the Reconstructor run him in over 70% of decks for exactly that reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Osgir, the Reconstructor

Osgir, the Reconstructor

71.6% of decks · synergy 0.67

Osgir, the Reconstructor fills the graveyard by exiling artifacts to pump himself, and Daretti, Scrap Savant is the loop that keeps refilling it — loot to bin something, minus to reanimate it, repeat.

02
Feldon of the Third Path

Feldon of the Third Path

61.6% of decks · synergy 0.57

Both Feldon of the Third Path and Daretti, Scrap Savant are graveyard-as-resource engines, and together they create redundancy: what Feldon can't reanimate permanently, Daretti handles, and Daretti's looting feeds Feldon's targets.

03

Megatron, Tyrant

54.4% of decks · synergy 0.53

Megatron, Tyrant wants a constant stream of artifacts entering and leaving the battlefield, and Daretti, Scrap Savant's minus ability delivers that recursion loop while the plus keeps the hand full.

04
Imskir Iron-Eater

Imskir Iron-Eater

54.3% of decks · synergy 0.52

Imskir Iron-Eater rewards sacrificing artifacts for cards and life, and Daretti, Scrap Savant closes the loop by reanimating whatever hits the graveyard — sac, recur, sac again.

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

Commander is where Daretti, Scrap Savant lives — he's legal and ubiquitous there, pulling double duty as both a standalone 99 inclusion in any red artifact deck and as a commander in his own right for players who want a dedicated artifacts-from-the-graveyard game plan. In Legacy and Vintage he's legal but practically invisible; four mana for a planeswalker with no immediate board impact doesn't compete in formats where the game can end on turn one or two. Oathbreaker gives him a second home as a commander-slot option, pairing him with an instant or sorcery signature spell to amplify his loot-and-reanimate loop, though the format's smaller card pool limits how explosive that engine gets.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.77 bulk tier

At $0.77, Daretti, Scrap Savant is firmly bulk despite being a four-loyalty planeswalker with genuine recurring value in artifact decks — heavy reprint history has driven the price down and kept it there. It's a safe pick-up at this price; the gameplay demand is real, the cost is negligible.

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