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Empowered Autogenerator

Artifact

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of charge counters on this artifact.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Edge of Eternities Commander
Price
$0.33
EDHREC rank
#4208
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Empowered Autogenerator card art
Empowered Autogenerator enters tapped and does nothing immediately, but every subsequent turn it compounds — each charge counter it accumulates translates directly into mana, and in the right shell that snowball gets out of hand fast. Filigree Sages can untap it for a second activation in the same turn, and Inspirit, Flagship Vessel turns the counter accumulation into a game-ending engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

52.3% of decks · synergy 0.48

Inspirit, Flagship Vessel proliferates on attack, which means Empowered Autogenerator's charge counters stack every combat step — the mana output scales so aggressively that the artifact frequently produces five or more mana by mid-game.

02
Kilo, Apogee Mind

Kilo, Apogee Mind

36.1% of decks · synergy 0.32

Kilo, Apogee Mind cares about artifacts and generating large amounts of mana to dump into activated abilities, and Empowered Autogenerator delivers exactly that once it has a few turns to accumulate counters.

03
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

32.3% of decks · synergy 0.31

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus doubles proliferate triggers, which means every proliferate effect puts two counters on Empowered Autogenerator instead of one — the ramp output curves up faster than almost any other mana rock in the format.

04

Ashling, Rekindled

21.9% of decks · synergy 0.21

Ashling, Rekindled runs a high density of proliferate effects to keep her own counters ticking up, and Empowered Autogenerator piggybacks on every single one to become a serious mana engine by the mid-game.

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

Commander is the only format where Empowered Autogenerator is genuinely competitive — the slower pace of the format gives it the time it needs to accumulate counters, and proliferate synergies are dense enough in Commander to make the payoff enormous. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but entirely unplayable; those formats demand immediate impact, and a tapped artifact that produces zero mana on the turn it enters doesn't clear the bar. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card variant where it could see niche play, specifically in a proliferate-focused shell, but the format's smaller player base keeps real data thin.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Filigree SagesEmpowered Autogenerator

Filigree SagesEmpowered Autogenerator

Infinite colored mana; Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce; Infinite untap of artifacts you control; Infinite charge counters on a permanent

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Price Context

Current price

$0.33 bulk tier

At $0.33, Empowered Autogenerator is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a four-of without thinking about it, though you'll realistically only ever need one. The price reflects its narrow home: outside of dedicated proliferate decks it's a blank, so don't expect much movement.

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