Galvanizing Sawship
Artifact — Spacecraft
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 3+.)
3+ | Flying, haste
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #17077
Galvanizing Sawship turns every artifact entering the battlefield into a +1/+1 counter for itself, snowballing into a legitimate threat over a long game. The cost is that it does nothing the turn it enters and needs a critical mass of artifact play to justify the slot.
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, Galvanizing Sawship earns its slot in artifact-heavy builds where the sheer volume of triggers turns it into an oversized attacker without any extra investment. Outside of that context, it competes against too many stronger four-drops to make the cut. In powered formats like Legacy and Vintage, the card is simply too slow — four mana for a delayed payoff doesn't survive the speed of those environments. Modern and Pioneer artifact synergy decks have access to more efficient threats, so Galvanizing Sawship stays on the bench there too. Standard is the one non-Commander format where it could see fringe play if the artifact support is dense enough in the current card pool.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Galvanizing Sawship is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not a display case. That price reflects its narrow playability, and there's no pressure to buy in early or in volume.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.