Digsite Conservator

Artifact Creature — Gnome

Sacrifice this creature: Exile up to four target cards from a single graveyard. Activate only as a sorcery.
When this creature dies, you may pay {4}. If you do, discover 4. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Price
$0.08
EDHREC rank
#18269
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Digsite Conservator card art
Digsite Conservator puts a 0/4 Construct token onto the battlefield every time an artifact enters your graveyard from anywhere — continuous, free, on-board token generation that scales with your own discard and sacrifice engines. The combo ceiling is real: pair it with Mortuary and any artifact that draws a card on entering or leaving, and the loop runs itself.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is where Digsite Conservator earns its slot — artifact-heavy strategies are ubiquitous, games go long enough for the token accumulation to matter, and the graveyard triggers fire constantly in sacrifice or self-mill builds. Outside Commander, it's legal everywhere from Standard to Vintage but faces a steeper climb: competitive artifact decks in Modern and Legacy move too fast to care about a three-mana 0/4 with a passive trigger, and Pioneer lacks the critical mass of cheap artifact sacrifice to make the engine pop consistently. File this as a Commander card that happens to be legal elsewhere.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.08 bulk tier

At $0.08, Digsite Conservator is pure bulk — a throw-in trade or a penny-bin grab that costs nothing to test. Bulk rares with narrow combo applications rarely climb without a breakout deck, so don't expect the price to move.

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