Etherium Astrolabe
Artifact
Flash
, 
, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #23606
Etherium Astrolabe replaces itself immediately and gives every artifact creature you control a free loot every upkeep — that's a repeating card-quality engine stapled onto a one-mana play. The cost is that it does nothing without a board presence and demands you build around artifacts to get full value.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Etherium Astrolabe earns its slot — artifact-creature-heavy builds like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Urza, Lord High Artificer turn the repeating loot into a meaningful filter engine across a long game. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but irrelevant; those formats have no patience for a one-mana card that asks you to assemble a board before it does anything. Modern has better artifact synergy payoffs that don't need setup. Oathbreaker can support it in the right shell, but the singleton format shrinks the redundancy you want.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Etherium Astrolabe is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a common box, not a singles order. Bulk rares with narrow synergy requirements don't climb, so buy it if you want it now and don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.