Faerie Mechanist
Artifact Creature — Faerie Artificer
Flying
When this creature enters, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #19724
Faerie Mechanist enters as a 2/2 flier and impulse-draws an artifact off the top — two meaningful effects stapled to one card for four mana. It's not flashy, but in artifact-heavy Commander builds it consistently replaces itself and leaves a body behind.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Faerie Mechanist earns its slot — artifact synergy decks run it as cheap card selection that also grows your board. In Pauper, the combination of evasion and card advantage on a common is genuinely competitive, particularly in artifact-matters shells. Legacy and Vintage have no interest; four mana for a 2/2 is embarrassingly slow in those formats regardless of the enters trigger. Modern and Pioneer artifact decks have access to strictly more efficient options, so Faerie Mechanist stays on the bench there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Faerie Mechanist is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card. Bulk rares fluctuate, but a common with narrow synergy applications has no price ceiling to speak of; pick up as many copies as your artifact decks need without a second thought.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.