Inventor's Apprentice
Creature — Human Artificer
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control an artifact.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaladesh
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #27761
Inventor's Apprentice is a 1/2 for one red mana that becomes a 2/3 as long as you control an artifact — a reasonable rate in artifact-dense shells, a blank in anything else. Run it only if your deck can reliably put an artifact into play on turn one or two.
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 |
Inventor's Apprentice sees essentially no competitive play across any format. In Modern and Pioneer, a one-mana 2/3 is playable in theory, but artifact aggro decks have access to strictly better one-drops that don't require a second permanent to reach that stat line. In Legacy and Vintage, the bar is too high to consider it. Commander is the most plausible home — artifact-tribal builds under commanders like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Sharuum the Hegemon flood the board with artifacts, so the pump condition is nearly always live, but Inventor's Apprentice offers no utility, no enter-the-battlefield effect, and no synergy payoff beyond its own size.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Inventor's Apprentice is deep bulk — the price reflects demand, which is minimal. It won't appreciate; pick it out of a bulk bin if you want it, but don't expect that to change.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.