Mouser Foundry
Artifact
When this artifact enters or leaves the battlefield, create a 1/1 colorless Robot artifact creature token.
, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 3 damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #18357
Mouser Foundry turns artifact creatures into a repeatable token engine, stapling a Chrome Dome-style robotic cat onto every construct or artifact creature you make. The opportunity cost is negligible — this is exactly the kind of card that quietly takes over a board while your opponents are managing threats that announce themselves.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mouser Foundry is a Commander card through and through — the incremental value of generating extra bodies compounds over a 40-life multiplayer game in ways that simply don't matter in 1v1 formats where the game ends too fast. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, it's too slow and too dependent on a critical mass of artifact creatures to justify a slot. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where an artifact synergy engine could theoretically see play, but Mouser Foundry needs more setup than that format typically allows. Stick to Commander, specifically artifact-creature-heavy builds where the token generation snowballs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Chrome DomeKrark-Clan IronworksMouser Foundry
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite copies of artifacts you control with haste; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite death triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Mouser Foundry is deep bulk — you're paying draft-chaff prices for a card with genuine Commander upside. Bulk rares that actually perform in the right shell tend to creep up when players discover them, but at this price there's no reason not to grab copies now.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Chrome Dome
- Krark-Clan Ironworks
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.