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Galvanic Alchemist

Creature — Human Wizard

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as this creature is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{2}{U}: Untap this creature."

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Avacyn Restored
Price
$0.08
EDHREC rank
#21383
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Galvanic Alchemist card art
Galvanic Alchemist is a repeatable untap engine disguised as a two-mana creature — pair it with any tap-for-value permanent and it generates immediate, recursive advantage at no additional cost. The catch is dependency: without a worthy target already in play, it's a 0/3 that does nothing, which is why it slots cleanly into dedicated combo shells like Codie, Vociferous Codex rather than generalist blue decks.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Galvanic Alchemist is a combo piece, not a fair card, so its competitive ceiling is entirely a function of whether the format supports the permanents it wants to untap. In Commander it earns a slot in untap-loop and spellslinger shells where a single broken permanent turns it into infinite activations. Pauper is where it sees the most cross-format interest, since the common card pool still contains tap-activated creatures and mana creatures that make the loop surprisingly accessible. Legacy and Vintage have strictly better options for any interaction Galvanic Alchemist enables, so it doesn't register there despite being legal.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.08 bulk tier

At $0.08, Galvanic Alchemist is deep bulk — you can pick up a playset for less than a dollar without thinking twice. Bulk combo pieces rarely spike unless a new enabler pushes the archetype into the spotlight, so buy what you need now and don't chase extras.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.