Incubation Sac
Artifact
This artifact enters with three oil counters on it.
, 
, Remove an oil counter from this artifact: Create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #19484
Incubation Sac turns every creature token you make into a mana investment, tapping for one colorless per token produced that turn — in the right deck, that's a free Sol Ring stapled to your go-wide payoff. The catch is that the mana vanishes at end of turn, so it only pays off the turn you flood the board.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Incubation Sac is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and token-centric strategies give it the repeated explosive turns it needs to justify a deck slot. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Legacy, the one-turn mana window is too narrow and the payoff too conditional to see play when faster, unconditional ramp exists. Pioneer is in the same boat: token strategies there are more about combat pressure than mana generation, and Incubation Sac doesn't pull its weight on that axis. Stick to Commander, and specifically to decks that can reliably produce five or more tokens in a single turn.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Incubation Sac is deep bulk — you're not paying for a card, you're paying for shipping. That price reflects its narrow role: it's good in maybe a dozen commander archetypes and unplayable elsewhere, which keeps demand low and the floor right where it is.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.