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Improvised Arsenal

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
{4}{R}: Create a token that's a copy of this Equipment.
Equip {R}

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Price
$0.55
EDHREC rank
#13672
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Improvised Arsenal card art
Improvised Arsenal enters and immediately converts every sacrifice or discard into a +1/+1 counter plus a free Treasure, letting go-wide and artifact-synergy decks snowball without spending extra mana. The cost is real — three mana for an enchantment that does nothing the turn opponents are threatening to win — but alongside Crime Novelist or Jaws, Relentless Predator, the token-and-counter engine comes online fast enough to justify the slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Jaws, Relentless Predator

Jaws, Relentless Predator

17.2% of decks · synergy 0.15

Jaws, Relentless Predator attacks into blockers and kills them on contact, which means Improvised Arsenal is cashing in those deaths as +1/+1 counters and Treasure tokens on the same step — the board grows and the mana base refills simultaneously, turning every combat into a resource generation event.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Improvised Arsenal is legal across every major constructed format, but Commander is where it actually lives. The combination of a wide multiplayer board, long games, and commanders that reward sacrifice or discard makes the slow setup acceptable — by turn five or six, the Treasure triggers alone can fund a second spell each turn. In competitive 60-card formats, three mana for a do-nothing enchantment loses to faster threats before the engine ever fires; Pioneer and Modern have better payoff engines at lower cost. Legacy and Vintage have even less patience for it. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's DNA that the card is playable there, but only in dedicated aristocrats or discard shells.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.55 bulk tier

At $0.55, Improvised Arsenal sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a four-of or toss into a Commander list without budget concern. Bulk enchantments with narrow synergy triggers rarely climb unless a new commander breaks them wide open, so treat this as a cheap role-player rather than a spec.

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