Fire Nation Salvagers
Creature — Human Soldier
Menace
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or Vehicle you control.
Whenever one or more creatures you control with counters on them deal combat damage to a player, put target creature or Vehicle card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #18140
Fire Nation Salvagers enters the battlefield and immediately returns an artifact from your graveyard to your hand — recursion stapled to a body, no activation required. The cost is four mana for a 3/3, which is honest but not exciting.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| 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 Fire Nation Salvagers earns a real look, and even there it slots into a specific archetype: artifact-heavy decks that expect their pieces to die and want redundant recursion. Legacy and Vintage are both legal but irrelevant — four mana for a 3/3 with an ETB isn't competing in those environments. Fire Nation Salvagers is a role-player, not a staple, and the decks that want it know exactly who they are.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Fire Nation Salvagers is bulk — easy to pick up, easy to cut without regret. Bulk artifact recursion doesn't tend to spike unless a commander breaks it wide open, so the price is likely stable unless something changes in the metagame.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.