Mishra, Artificer Prodigy
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card with the same name as that spell and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BRU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.45
- EDHREC rank
- #22390
Mishra, Artificer Prodigy is a build-around trap in most contexts — his triggered ability only fires when an opponent controls a copy of the artifact you cast, which almost never happens in a normal game. Making him work requires deliberate self-duplication engines or a dedicated Mishra-as-commander shell built around cheating artifacts from graveyard to hand.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Mishra, Artificer Prodigy is a niche commander pick rather than a 99-slot card — his ability does nothing unless you construct the deck around triggering it, typically via cards that create token copies of your artifacts or exploit the graveyard recursion clause. In Legacy and Vintage, he's legal but sees no competitive play; a four-mana 4/4 with a conditional triggered ability can't compete with the formats' actual artifact payoffs. Modern is the same story — legal, irrelevant. Oathbreaker is the one fringe space where a Mishra-led artifact storm concept could surface, but even there the setup cost is steep enough that he remains a curiosity rather than a threat.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.45 bulk tier
At $0.45, Mishra, Artificer Prodigy is firmly bulk, and that price reflects his narrow playability accurately. Don't expect movement — the demand ceiling is low, capped by how few players are willing to build around such a demanding trigger condition.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.