Dispersal Technician
Creature — Vedalken Artificer
When this creature enters, you may return target artifact to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #29252
Dispersal Technician bounces an artifact when it enters, which is real removal on a body — but five mana for a 3/3 with no evasion is a steep ask in most formats. It earns its slot only in artifact-heavy environments where the ETB trigger is nearly guaranteed to matter.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dispersal Technician is a Pauper-tier role-player: artifact removal stapled to a creature body is always relevant given how many Sol Rings and Signets hit the table, and the five-mana cost is easier to absorb in a 40-life multiplayer game. Outside Commander, it struggles — Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy all move too fast for a five-mana 3/3 with no immediate board impact beyond a tempo bounce. Pauper is the one format where Dispersal Technician can genuinely compete, since artifact removal at common is valuable and the card advantage from blinking or recurring it is accessible at that power level.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Dispersal Technician is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. Bulk commons rarely move in price unless a specific combo or blink shell pushes demand, and nothing in the current metagame suggests that's coming.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.