Glacian, Powerstone Engineer
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
, Tap X untapped artifacts you control: Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #21529
Glacian, Powerstone Engineer turns every artifact you tap for mana into card selection, which in an artifact-heavy Commander deck compounds fast. The cost is real — you need artifacts that produce mana, not just artifacts — but in the right shell this outdoes Approach of the Second Sun levels of slow inevitability by just drawing you into what you actually need.
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 |
Glacian, Powerstone Engineer is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower pace, proliferation of mana rocks, and 100-card variance make the scry-2 engine genuinely valuable over a long game. In Legacy and Vintage, where the card is technically legal, no competitive deck wants a four-mana 2/4 that requires additional mana-producing artifacts to do anything. Commander is where Glacian, Powerstone Engineer earns its slot: artifact-centric decks that already run eight or more mana rocks get consistent card selection without dedicating a slot to a pure draw spell.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Glacian, Powerstone Engineer is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not a binder. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is plentiful, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.