Harried Dronesmith
Creature — Human Artificer
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of your next end step.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #14678
Harried Dronesmith puts a free artifact token on the board the moment it attacks — that's immediate value before your opponent can respond. The catch is a three-mana 2/3 with no evasion; it lives and dies by whether you can loop that attack trigger, which is exactly why Breath of Fury turns it from a fair card into an engine.
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 |
Commander is where Harried Dronesmith actually belongs — artifact-token synergies, sacrifice outlets, and combat-loop payoffs are everywhere in the format, and the card slots cleanly into Breya, Brudiclad, or any Boros artifacts shell. In 60-card formats it's too slow and too fair; a three-mana 2/3 that makes a 1/1 on attack doesn't threaten anything in Modern or Pioneer where the battlefield moves faster and creature floors are higher. Standard gives it the most charitable 60-card environment, but even there it's a Limited card at best rather than a constructed staple.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Breath of FuryHarried Dronesmith
Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Harried Dronesmith is firmly bulk — buy a playset without thinking about it. Bulk artifact-synergy pieces rarely spike unless a combo gets solved around them, so treat this as a low-risk pickup for any Commander build that wants the token gameplan.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.