Emergency Weld
Sorcery
Return target artifact or creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #10924
Emergency Weld returns an artifact or creature from your graveyard to the battlefield — no mana cost, instant speed, and it only costs you discarding a card. That's a cheat-into-play effect at zero mana, and the discard is a feature rather than a bug in any deck running Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist wants to discard artifacts to fuel her ability, so Emergency Weld converts that discard directly into a free reanimation — the card you pitch can even be the artifact you're bringing back next turn.
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 |
Emergency Weld is a Commander card through and through — the power ceiling scales with how expensive your artifacts and creatures are, and that ceiling is highest in a 100-card singleton format where you're regularly threatening six- and seven-mana permanents. In Pauper it's technically legal but competes in a format defined by cheap, efficient commons where zero-mana reanimation of a single card rarely closes games. Modern and Pioneer have the card pool to support artifact-reanimation strategies, but Emergency Weld faces stiffer competition from more consistent options and sees essentially no play there. Legacy and Vintage have better reanimation and faster clocks, so Emergency Weld sits on the sidelines in both.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Emergency Weld is deep bulk — you can pick up a playset for the price of a sleeve. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely appreciate, so treat it as a cheap role-player to grab when building rather than a spec.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.