Inventors' Fair
Legendary Land
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
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, , Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kaladesh Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #281
Inventors' Fair gives artifact-heavy decks a land that gains life passively and tutors any artifact straight to hand for three mana — all without spending a card slot on a spell. Iron Man, Titan of Innovation runs it in over 83% of decks for good reason: a colorless land with that much utility attached is simply free value.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Iron Man, Titan of Innovation
Iron Man, Titan of Innovation is an artifact synergy engine, and Inventors' Fair slots in as both a passive life buffer and a toolbox tutor — 84% inclusion says the community has already reached consensus here.
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider cares about artifacts and treasure tokens, so Inventors' Fair does double duty: it quietly accumulates life while holding a tutored artifact in reserve for the exact moment the board calls for it.
Daretti, Scrap Savant
Daretti, Scrap Savant runs a dense artifact suite that constantly cycles pieces in and out of the graveyard, and Inventors' Fair lets you name exactly the artifact you need next rather than hoping to draw into it.
Captain America, First Avenger
Captain America, First Avenger leans on Equipment, and Inventors' Fair turns three mana into a guaranteed fetch for whichever Equipment the board state demands — consistency is the whole point in a deck that lives or dies by suiting up.
Urza, Lord High Artificer
Urza, Lord High Artificer wants specific artifacts at specific times, and Inventors' Fair is a land-slot tutor that doesn't ask you to spend a spell to find Isochron Scepter or whatever the combo piece of the moment happens to be.
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 |
Commander is where Inventors' Fair earns its reputation — artifact commanders run it as a land-slot tutor, which means it costs nothing in deck-building currency while providing a searchable answer to whatever board state emerges. In Modern and Legacy, the bar for colorless lands is higher because tempo matters more than toolbox flexibility, and a land that enters untapped but produces only colorless mana is a real cost in color-intensive shells. Pioneer follows the same logic: the life gain threshold of three artifacts isn't trivially met outside dedicated artifact decks, and those decks still have to weigh whether the tutor payoff justifies the colorless constraint. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander case closely — if the signature spell or the win condition is an artifact, Inventors' Fair is a quiet auto-include.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Current pricing data for Inventors' Fair isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for the live number. Historically it has floated in the low-to-mid single digits given its niche appeal to artifact commanders — wide enough demand to hold value, narrow enough that it rarely spikes hard.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.