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 
. 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
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #18269
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
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
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
MortuaryDigsite ConservatorAshnod's AltarSifter of Skulls
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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MortuaryDigsite ConservatorAshnod's AltarPawn of Ulamog
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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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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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.