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Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot Villain

At the beginning of combat on your turn, target non-Equipment artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn. Untap it.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Marvel's Spider-Man
Price
$0.12
EDHREC rank
#16890
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Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel card art
Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel lets you exile cards from opponents' hands and cast them — a political and card-advantage engine stapled to a body that generates value every time it untaps. Voltaic Construct and similar untap effects turn that triggered ability into a repeatable threat, but the five-mana cost means it needs support to come down without immediately getting answered.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel does its best work — three opponents means three hands to exile from, and any untap-based combo shell treats it as both a value piece and a potential game-ender. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it faces stiffer competition at five mana, where the payoff needs to be immediate and it rarely survives to untap. Legacy and Vintage have faster clocks that make it a non-starter competitively. Standard is the one 60-card context where its unique effect might carve out space if the meta slows down enough to support it.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.12 bulk tier

At $0.12, Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a playset without thinking twice. Bulk rares with narrow combo upside rarely spike unless a specific deck breaks them, so treat this as a low-risk pickup rather than an investment.

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