Etched Familiar
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Fox
When this creature dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #15761
Etched Familiar enters the battlefield as a copy of any artifact you control, giving you an immediate board presence that scales with whatever you've already built. The cost is that Audacious Reshapers aside, this effect is narrow — it only shines when you're already running a dense artifact package worth copying.
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 |
In Commander, Etched Familiar earns a slot in artifact-heavy decks that want redundancy on their best permanents — copying a Blightsteel Colossus or a high-value utility artifact is a genuine threat multiplier. Pauper is where Etched Familiar sees its most competitive play, slotting into artifact synergy shells that abuse enters-the-battlefield effects and artifact counts. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, the card is legal but rarely played — those formats have faster, more efficient ways to replicate artifacts. Vintage has too much raw power to bother.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Audacious ReshapersMortuaryIntruder AlarmEtched Familiar
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifeloss; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Etched Familiar is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice. Price movement is extremely unlikely unless a new artifact commander or Pauper combo pushes demand, so grab copies now if you need them and don't expect to trade them for anything meaningful later.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.