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Mine Worker

Artifact Creature — Assembly-Worker

{T}: You gain 1 life. If you control creatures named Power Plant Worker and Tower Worker, you gain 3 life instead.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
The Brothers' War
Price
$0.05
EDHREC rank
#17992
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Mine Worker card art
Mine Worker is a one-mana 1/1 with tap abilities that matters almost exclusively as a combo piece — on its own it does nothing threatening. In dedicated life-gain shells, particularly alongside Heliod, Sun-Crowned, it becomes a repeatable engine that can go infinite with the right support.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Mine Worker sees essentially zero competitive play in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer — the rate is too low and the payoff too conditional for those formats' speed. In Pauper it's a legal one-drop but rarely a priority outside fringe combo builds. Commander is where Mine Worker finds its actual home: the format's slower clock and life-gain synergy density give it the time and context to become a functional engine piece.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.05 bulk tier

At $0.05, Mine Worker is deep bulk — you'll find it in common boxes or throw-in trades without a second thought. Bulk commons don't appreciate unless a new combo or commander dramatically spikes demand, so buy it for the deck slot, not the binder.

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