Fugitive Droid
Artifact Creature — Robot Scientist
This creature can't be blocked if an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn.
, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell that targets an artifact or creature you control.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #14789
Fugitive Droid replaces itself on entry — any artifact deck gets a free card just for playing it. The cost is a two-mana 2/1 with no other upside, but Mendicant Core, Guidelight turns that cantrip into a recurring engine piece rather than a one-time transaction.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mendicant Core, Guidelight
Mendicant Core, Guidelight wants cheap artifacts that draw cards, and Fugitive Droid delivers exactly that — it triggers synergies, replaces itself, and keeps the artifact count high for Mendicant's own abilities.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fugitive Droid is a role player, not a headliner — it slots into artifact-heavy builds that need fodder and card flow simultaneously. The cantrip matters most in engines that care about artifacts entering the battlefield, where drawing a card is almost incidental to the trigger. In powered non-rotating formats like Legacy and Vintage, a two-mana 2/1 that draws a card is too slow to register when Thoughtcast and Mox exist. Modern and Pioneer have enough cheap cantripping artifacts that Fugitive Droid rarely competes, though budget artifact strategies can use it as a low-friction inclusion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Fugitive Droid is bulk — pick it up without thinking about the price. It won't appreciate, but it also won't cost you anything to try.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.