Merchant's Dockhand
Artifact Creature — Construct
, 
, Tap X untapped artifacts you control: Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kaladesh Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #19385
Merchant's Dockhand is a one-mana blue artifact creature that taps alongside other artifacts to loot — digging for answers or gas at the cost of a card. The activation is mana-free but tap-heavy, which means it rewards artifact-dense boards and punishes thin ones.
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 |
In Commander, Merchant's Dockhand earns its slot in artifact-heavy builds — Urza, Lord High Artificer, Sai, Master Thopterist, and similar commanders generate the board presence needed to make the tap ability dig two or three cards deep with regularity. Outside of those shells, a one-mana looter that requires three tapped artifacts to filter a single card is too conditional to justify inclusion. In competitive constructed formats like Legacy and Vintage, Merchant's Dockhand sees essentially no play — those formats have faster, less situational card selection. Pioneer and Modern offer artifact synergy shells where it could theoretically fit, but better options exist at the same cost.
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Price Context
Current price
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Price data for Merchant's Dockhand isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. As a common-rarity artifact creature with narrow synergy requirements, it typically sits in bulk territory and is easy to pick up without budget concern.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.