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Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Human Artificer

When Ich-Tekik enters, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token.
Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Ich-Tekik and a +1/+1 counter on each Golem you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander Legends
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#10529
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Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer card art
Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer turns every artifact that hits the graveyard into a +1/+1 counter on every Golem you control — a passive engine that scales fast in any shell that sacrifices or recycles artifacts. The cost is real: four mana for a 1/1 means it does nothing the turn it lands, but pair it with Animation Module or run it under Brenard, Ginger Sculptor and the counter accumulation becomes genuinely threatening within two or three turns.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Brenard, Ginger Sculptor

Brenard, Ginger Sculptor

64.8% of decks · synergy 0.63

Brenard, Ginger Sculptor converts any nontoken creature that dies into a Golem copy, which means every creature in the deck becomes a potential counter-accumulation target for Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer — the two cards form an engine where Brenard generates the Golems and Ich-Tekik grows them off the artifact deaths that naturally follow.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer is a Commander card through and through — the effect requires a board state, a graveyard loop, and time to develop, none of which competitive Legacy or Vintage gives you. In Commander, it slots cleanly into artifact-sacrifice and Golem-tribal strategies, where the passive trigger fires multiple times per turn cycle across four players' worth of artifact activity. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal formats but Ich-Tekik asks for too much setup to compete at those tables. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it could realistically function, provided the spellbook supports an artifact gameplan.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

25 decks
Ich-Tekik, Salvage SplicerArcbound ReclaimerMishra's BaubleMystic Forge

Ich-Tekik, Salvage SplicerArcbound ReclaimerMishra's BaubleMystic Forge

Infinite card draw at the beginning of the next upkeep; Infinite draw triggers at the beginning of the next upkeep; Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite +1/+1 counters on Golems you control; Infinite storm count

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer isn't currently available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its partner status and inclusion in over 8,800 Brenard decks alone, it sees enough demand to stay off the bulk rare floor — expect to pay somewhere in the $1–3 range, though verify before buying.

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