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Junk Diver

Artifact Creature — Bird

Flying
When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Urza's Destiny
Price
$2.74
EDHREC rank
#2009
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Junk Diver card art
Junk Diver returns an artifact from your graveyard to your hand when it dies — that recursive loop is the entire reason it exists, and in the right shell it chains into itself repeatedly. Pair it with Scrap Trawler or slot it into Imotekh the Stormlord and you're not just recovering a single piece; you're assembling an engine that wins on the spot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Imotekh the Stormlord

Imotekh the Stormlord

54.9% of decks · synergy 0.53

Imotekh the Stormlord's artifact-sacrifice loops demand exactly what Junk Diver provides: a cheap recursive body that returns a key piece on death, keeping the chain alive turn after turn. It's in over half of all Imotekh decks for good reason.

03
Gandalf the White

Gandalf the White

51.8% of decks · synergy 0.50

Gandalf the White wants noncreature artifacts in the graveyard to copy, and Junk Diver's death trigger ensures the good ones keep cycling back into position rather than staying buried.

04
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

48.1% of decks · synergy 0.45

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut rewards artifact sacrifices with card advantage, and Junk Diver converts its own death into a graveyard retrieval that fuels the next sacrifice — keeping both halves of the engine fed.

05
Daretti, Scrap Savant

Daretti, Scrap Savant

46.4% of decks · synergy 0.45

Daretti, Scrap Savant already wants to reanimate artifacts from the graveyard, and Junk Diver adds a redundant layer by returning a piece to hand the moment it dies, giving Daretti something to pitch right back into the yard.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Junk Diver is a Commander card, full stop — the recursive artifact synergies it enables operate at a pace and scale that only 100-card singleton games support. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees no meaningful play; the formats move too fast and graveyard loops need to be cheaper and more explosive than a three-mana 1/1 can offer. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where Junk Diver can show up in an artifact combo shell, though the card pool is narrow enough that its competition is lighter. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper aren't options, so if you're building outside Commander, Junk Diver almost certainly doesn't belong in your list.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.74 cheap tier

At $2.74, Junk Diver sits in cheap territory for a card that appears in tens of thousands of Commander decks and anchors multiple combo lines. It's a stable pickup — demand is consistent across artifact commanders and the card has no realistic reprint pressure that would crater the price.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.