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Donatello, Way with Machines

Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle

Flying
Whenever an artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Donatello.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Price
$0.39
EDHREC rank
#15213
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Donatello, Way with Machines card art
Donatello, Way with Machines turns every artifact you control into a mana source, which in the right shell is backbreaking on arrival. The cost is real — you need a board of artifacts already in play for him to pull weight — but commanders like Urza, Lord High Artificer make that condition trivially easy to meet.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Donatello, Way with Machines is a Commander card — the effect compounds with wide artifact boards that only multiplayer games and dedicated artifact commanders reliably produce. In Legacy and Vintage, artifact combo decks already have faster mana infrastructure and don't need a three-mana creature to fill the role. Modern and Pioneer artifact shells could theoretically use him, but the fragility of a creature-based mana source in those formats makes him a poor fit for competitive play. Standard is the one non-Commander 60-card format where he's worth testing, specifically in any artifact-go-wide shell that lacks better acceleration options.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Infinite ETB; Infinite copies of creature tokens you control; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.39 bulk tier

At $0.39, Donatello, Way with Machines is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a four-of or a Commander staple without any financial hesitation. The price is likely to hold or drift lower as supply increases; nothing in his text box screams future spike unless an artifact combo deck breaks out in a 60-card format.

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