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Dr. Madison Li

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you get {E} (an energy counter).
{T}, Pay {E}: Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains trample and haste until end of turn.
{T}, Pay {E}{E}{E}: Draw a card.
{T}, Pay {E}{E}{E}{E}{E}: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{U}{R}{W}
Color identity
RUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Fallout
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#6336
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Dr. Madison Li card art
Dr. Madison Li puts an artifact from your library directly onto the battlefield the moment you cast a Robot or Vehicle — repeatable, on-cast, no tapping required. The cost is a three-mana legendary body with no defensive keywords, which means she dies to anything and needs protection to generate more than one trigger. Run her when you can guarantee two or more artifacts entering off her ability; a single hit off Decoction Module or a free Liberty Prime, Recharged is enough to justify the slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Liberty Prime, Recharged

Liberty Prime, Recharged

84.9% of decks · synergy 0.81

Liberty Prime, Recharged is the natural home — Dr. Madison Li's ability to cheat artifacts into play off every Robot cast turns Liberty Prime's parade of big constructs into a free-artifact engine that snowballs faster than the mana curve suggests.

02
Satya, Aetherflux Genius

Satya, Aetherflux Genius

48.2% of decks · synergy 0.44

Satya, Aetherflux Genius creates token copies of artifacts and creatures, which means Dr. Madison Li can trigger repeatedly inside the same combat step; the two cards share enough overlap in artifact payoffs that Satya lists treat Dr. Madison Li as a consistent value piece rather than a one-shot.

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

Dr. Madison Li is a Commander card through and through — her power scales with density of Robots and Vehicles, a synergy cluster that only reaches critical mass in a 99-card singleton environment. Legacy and Vintage lists could technically register her, but neither format runs the tribal artifact packages she needs to fire consistently, so she sees no meaningful play there. Commander is the one format where the payoff lands: artifact-heavy decks with enough targets turn her into a free-spell engine that compounds over a long game. Oathbreaker is legal but the compressed game length reduces her expected trigger count, making her a fringe include at best.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

20 decks
Dr. Madison LiIntruder AlarmRobobrain War MindKrark-Clan Ironworks

Dr. Madison LiIntruder AlarmRobobrain War MindKrark-Clan Ironworks

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite energy counters; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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10 decks
Dr. Madison LiIntruder AlarmRobobrain War MindAshnod's Altar

Dr. Madison LiIntruder AlarmRobobrain War MindAshnod's Altar

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite energy counters; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data for Dr. Madison Li isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given her narrow tribal requirement and near-exclusive Commander home, expect her to sit in the range typical for niche legendary creatures from the Fallout Universes Beyond release — approachable for budget builders, and not a card that warrants speculative buyouts.

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