Implement of Combustion
Artifact
, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10990
Implement of Combustion is a one-mana artifact that replaces itself with a card draw on sacrifice and pings for 1 damage — the whole package costs two mana spread across two turns. Outside of commanders that specifically want cheap sacrificeable artifacts, that rate is too slow and too low-impact to justify a slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut cares about sacrificing artifacts to trigger value, and Implement of Combustion checks every box: it enters cheaply, replaces itself on the way out, and contributes a damage ping that adds up across a game built around repeated sacrifice loops.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Implement of Combustion earns its slot only in dedicated artifact-sacrifice shells — outside those, one damage and one card for two mana spread over two turns is not a meaningful rate at a 100-card table. Pauper is where it has the most plausible life, since cheap cantripping artifacts are real currency in that format's artifact-combo and affinity-adjacent decks. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it is strictly too low-powered; those formats have faster, denser artifact payoffs that render Implement of Combustion irrelevant.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Implement of Combustion isn't available in the current feed, but as a common with narrow applications it almost certainly sits in bulk-rare-or-less territory. Pick it up out of a bulk bin rather than paying shipping on a single copy.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.