Eager Construct
Artifact Creature — Construct
When this creature enters, each player may scry 1. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaladesh Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #18180
Eager Construct is a 2/2 for two mana that does almost nothing — the scry 1 each player gets is so marginal it barely registers as a drawback, let alone a benefit. The only place it earns a slot is River Song, where every artifact entering the battlefield is points on the board.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
River Song
River Song rewards you for cards entering from the top of your library and for non-sequential play patterns, and Eager Construct's artifact type lets it pull double duty as a cheap body that triggers artifact-matters synergies on the turn it lands.
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 |
Eager Construct is legal everywhere from Pauper to Vintage, which matters only because Pauper is the one format where cheap artifact creatures sometimes find a legitimate home — mostly in affinity or metalcraft shells that need a colorless body to hit material thresholds. In Commander, it's a 99-card slot competing against an enormous pool of two-drops, and a 2/2 with conditional scry 1 for each player simply doesn't clear that bar except in dedicated artifact-count decks. In every competitive constructed format — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — it is outclassed by a wide margin and sees no meaningful play.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data isn't available for Eager Construct at the moment, but it's a bulk common that routinely sits at a few cents in most markets. Unless you're filling a very specific artifact-count requirement on a near-zero budget, it's not worth going out of your way to acquire.
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Sources
Mentioned
- River Song
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.