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Mishra's Factory

Land

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: This land becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Antiquities
Price
$166.00
EDHREC rank
#3017
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Mishra's Factory card art
Mishra's Factory is a land that becomes a 2/2 creature whenever you need it to — it blocks, it attacks, it pumps other Factory tokens, and it never costs you a spell slot. The interaction with Exchange of Words is a known edge case, and Baba Lysaga, Night Witch decks run it at over 84% inclusion precisely because a land that is also a permanent type matters for her sacrifice engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

84.3% of decks · synergy 0.83

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch cares about controlling permanents of multiple types simultaneously, and Mishra's Factory quietly checks 'land' and 'creature' at the same time when animated — that dual identity lets a single card satisfy two of her conditions without spending an extra card slot.

02
Arcum Dagsson

Arcum Dagsson

45.5% of decks · synergy 0.44

Arcum Dagsson can tutor any artifact creature onto the battlefield, and Mishra's Factory, while not an artifact, gives Arcum decks a free blocker and attacker on a colorless land — it keeps the artifact-creature count clean while still contributing to board presence.

05
Jyoti, Moag Ancient

Jyoti, Moag Ancient

23.8% of decks · synergy 0.23

Jyoti, Moag Ancient generates Forest lands as tokens and cares about land count and landfall triggers, making Mishra's Factory a natural include: it contributes to the land-matters theme while also providing a body that Jyoti's wide board can support.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Mishra's Factory earns its slot by being a land that doubles as a creature — it dodges sorcery-speed removal, survives wraths that don't hit lands, and contributes to combat without costing a card. In Legacy and Vintage, it has a long history in colorless and artifact-based strategies where tempo from a free threat on a land is genuinely powerful, though faster formats have largely outpaced it in those contexts. Modern legality is notable: it's playable there in niche land-creature or colorless shells, though it rarely headlines those lists. Pioneer and Standard players won't find it legal, and Pauper is off the table despite the card's conceptual simplicity.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Inkmoth Nexus and Blinkmoth Nexus both animate into flying creatures for one mana and run under $5, which covers most of what Mishra's Factory does in creature-land strategies — you lose the pump-other-Factories ability and the Assembly-Worker type, but you gain evasion. If the specific creature type or self-pump matters for your commander, there's no clean swap; if you just want a land that becomes an attacker, either Blinkmoth fills the role at a fraction of the cost.

Price Context

Current price

$166.00 premium tier

At $166, Mishra's Factory sits firmly in premium territory — this is the original Alpha/Beta printing driving the price, and current reprints in cheaper editions are available for under $1. If you want the effect rather than the collectible, buy a reprint; if you want the original cardboard, $166 reflects scarcity more than raw power.

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