Gremlin Mine
Artifact
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, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 4 damage to target artifact creature., , Sacrifice this artifact: Remove up to four charge counters from target noncreature artifact.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #29388
Gremlin Mine deals 4 damage to an artifact creature for four mana total — one to play it, three to sacrifice it — which is a slow, overpriced way to answer a threat that almost any instant-speed removal handles more efficiently. It sees essentially no competitive play because the effect doesn't justify the setup cost.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gremlin Mine is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, artifact creatures are common enough targets that the demand exists, but four mana spread across two actions to deal 4 damage is far below the format's power threshold — Generous Gift, Chaos Warp, or even Smelt do more for less. In Pauper, where the card pool is constrained and artifact creatures like Myr Enforcer are real threats, Gremlin Mine is technically functional but still loses the slot to Shatter or Gorilla Shaman. In Legacy and Vintage, the card doesn't register.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Gremlin Mine is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a trade binder filler pile. There's no demand curve that pushes this higher, so it holds its price only in the sense that nothing can fall below a nickel.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.