Ingenuity Engine
Artifact
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
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, Sacrifice an artifact: Return target artifact you control to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #9462
Ingenuity Engine lands and immediately copies a triggered ability from any artifact you control — that's a repeatable doubling effect stapled to a six-mana artifact that costs nothing to activate once it's in play. The price is the mana investment up front, but in any deck leaning on artifact triggers, Ingenuity Engine earns that slot fast. Tannuk, Steadfast Second decks run it at over 36% inclusion for exactly this reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tannuk, Steadfast Second
Tannuk, Steadfast Second generates treasure and artifact triggers on a tight loop, and Ingenuity Engine doubles those triggers without asking for any additional mana — it's essentially a free multiplier once the engine is running.
Averna, the Chaos Bloom
Averna, the Chaos Bloom puts permanents onto the battlefield off cascade triggers, and Ingenuity Engine copies the cascade-adjacent artifact triggers that fire along the way, turning each cascade chain into a two-for-one at the artifact layer.
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 |
Commander is where Ingenuity Engine actually lives — six mana is acceptable in a 40-life format where artifact-synergy decks have the time to set up, and the payoff of copying a triggered ability every turn compounds quickly. Legacy and Vintage are both legal on paper, but the cost and the lack of redundancy make it a non-starter in those formats; faster, cheaper effects dominate before Ingenuity Engine can matter. Oathbreaker is the only other realistic home, and only in slower, artifact-heavy builds where you reach six mana consistently.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Ingenuity Engine is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a bargain bin. The price reflects low casual demand outside its target archetypes, so don't expect it to climb unless a new artifact-trigger commander pushes it into wider play.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Tannuk, Steadfast Second
- Averna, the Chaos Bloom
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.