Nimble Thopterist
Creature — Vedalken Artificer
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #20668
Nimble Thopterist drops three flying bodies for five mana — and in artifact-matters shells, Improvise can cut that cost to two or even one real mana. The rate is mediocre in a vacuum but genuinely strong when your board is already doing work.
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 |
In Commander, Nimble Thopterist earns its slot in Breya, Etherium Shaper or Sharuum the Hegemon shells where three artifact tokens at a discount fuel sacrifice loops and payoffs simultaneously. Pauper is where it actually gets dangerous — Improvise decks there can land it early, and three flying bodies at common rarity is hard to replicate at that budget. In Modern and Pioneer it's too slow even with Improvise reducing the cost, since those formats demand more immediate board impact at that mana investment. Legacy and Vintage don't care — the power ceiling is too high for a three-token sorcery to compete.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Nimble Thopterist is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not tracking it down. That price is stable because supply is high and demand is narrow, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.