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Lux Artillery

Artifact

Whenever you cast an artifact creature spell, it gains sunburst. (It enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
At the beginning of your end step, if there are thirty or more counters among artifacts and creatures you control, this artifact deals 10 damage to each opponent.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Edge of Eternities Commander
Price
$0.33
EDHREC rank
#3857
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Lux Artillery card art
Lux Artillery puts a repeatable damage trigger on the board that scales with the number of charge counters you can generate, and the payoff compounds fast in decks built around artifact proliferation or counter accumulation. The cost is real — it demands a supporting cast to matter, and cards like Crystalline Crawler and Inspirit, Flagship Vessel are doing heavy lifting to make that engine fire consistently.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

70.7% of decks · synergy 0.65

Inspirit, Flagship Vessel is the premier home for Lux Artillery because the commander's charge-counter generation feeds directly into Artillery's damage trigger, turning every counter-loaded activation into a board-pressuring clock.

02
Kilo, Apogee Mind

Kilo, Apogee Mind

59.3% of decks · synergy 0.53

Kilo, Apogee Mind's proliferate-adjacent counter manipulation lets Lux Artillery fire repeatedly and on demand, making it a reliable source of incremental damage in a deck already invested in counter density.

03
Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

50.2% of decks · synergy 0.49

Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp cares about modular and +1/+1 counters moving around artifacts, and Lux Artillery slots in as a damage outlet that rewards the same counter churn Zabaz is already incentivizing.

04
Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch

Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch

38.1% of decks · synergy 0.37

Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch untaps Myr en masse and generates mana and counter-adjacent value at scale, giving Lux Artillery enough fuel to trigger meaningfully without dedicating additional slots to enablers.

05

Optimus Prime, Hero

34.2% of decks · synergy 0.28

Optimus Prime, Hero flips into a massive artifact creature that naturally accumulates counters through combat, and Lux Artillery converts that counter density into direct damage that threatens players who might otherwise ignore the battlefield.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Lux Artillery is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it realistically sees play. In Legacy and Vintage, a four-mana artifact with no immediate impact and no built-in combo redundancy is not competing for slots against the format's available power. Oathbreaker narrows the pool enough that it's at least conceivable in a counter-heavy shell, but the same enabler requirements apply. Commander is where the 100-card singleton environment rewards synergy packages, and Lux Artillery is a synergy card through and through.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.33 bulk tier

At $0.33, Lux Artillery is firmly bulk — you're not paying a premium for power, you're paying for a role-player that earns its slot only in specific shells. Bulk rares with narrow applications tend to stay in this range unless a breakout commander pulls demand up, so don't expect price movement either direction.

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