Industrial Advancement
Enchantment
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is that creature's mana value. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- New Capenna Commander
- Price
- $4.45
- EDHREC rank
- #6244
Industrial Advancement puts a creature from your hand directly onto the battlefield — no mana cost paid — then sacrifices it at end of turn, making it a one-card engine for any deck that wants creatures in the graveyard or just needs a massive threat online immediately. The cost is a steep four mana at sorcery speed, but commanders like Henzie "Toolbox" Torre turn that "downside" sacrifice clause into pure upside.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre's blitz ability already wants creatures dying fast, and Industrial Advancement cheats a fatty into play and then hands it straight to the graveyard — triggering blitz draw without ever paying blitz cost. It's in nearly 60% of Henzie decks for exactly that reason.
Edea, Possessed Sorceress
Edea, Possessed Sorceress cares about creatures entering and leaving, so Industrial Advancement's forced sacrifice is a feature rather than a bug — it closes the loop on an enter-and-die trigger in a single card.
Feldon of the Third Path
Feldon of the Third Path wants high-value creatures in the graveyard to copy, and Industrial Advancement is one of the most efficient ways to get a six-or-seven drop into the bin without ever casting it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Industrial Advancement is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and Commander is unambiguously where it belongs. In a 100-card singleton format with graveyard synergies everywhere, cheating a creature into play and immediately pitching it to the bin is a core loop rather than a cute trick. Legacy and Vintage are both legal but uninterested — formats that resolve in the first few turns have no patience for four-mana sorceries with setup requirements. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case worth considering if your planeswalker-and-signature-spell pairing leans on reanimation or sacrifice payoffs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.45 cheap tier
At $4.45, Industrial Advancement sits at the high end of the cheap tier but is still an easy include given the effect. Cards that functionally cheat mana costs on large creatures tend to hold or climb as more graveyard and reanimator commanders are printed, so this is a fair price for what it does.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
- Edea, Possessed Sorceress
- Feldon of the Third Path
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.