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Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle

More Than Meets the Eye {2}{U}{R}{W} (You may cast this card converted for {2}{U}{R}{W}.)
At the beginning of each end step, bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When Optimus Prime dies, return it to the battlefield converted under its owner's control.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{3}{U}{R}{W}
Color identity
RUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Transformers
Price
$5.40
EDHREC rank
#9233
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Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader card art
Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader hits the board as a massive trampling threat that converts into a Vehicle-creating engine the moment it dies, making it one of the most self-sufficient artifact-synergy pieces in Commander. The catch is the seven-mana front face — you're leaning on ramp or reanimation to get there, and cards like Luminous Broodmoth that enable repeated death triggers are doing serious work alongside it. If your deck wants artifact recursion and a body that punishes attackers twice, Tetzin, Gnome Champion shells included, this card earns its slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Tetzin, Gnome Champion

37.9% of decks · synergy 0.37

Tetzin, Gnome Champion and Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader are a natural pair — Tetzin rewards you for accumulating artifacts and triggering them, and Optimus Prime generates a stream of artifact Vehicles every time it dies, feeding exactly that engine while also threatening to flip back into a seven-power trample finisher.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader actually lives — the singleton format's longer games give you time to land a seven-drop, and the death-trigger economy it creates snowballs over multiple turns in ways that 20-life formats can't accommodate. Legacy and Vintage allow it technically, but a seven-mana creature with no immediate protection and no broken enters-the-battlefield text has no competitive footing in either format. Oathbreaker is theoretically legal, but the 20-life clock and lower average game length punish expensive threats hard. Commander is the only format where Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader is actually doing its job.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

No single card replicates both the trampling finisher and the death-into-Vehicle conversion that Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader offers, but Loyal Apprentice and Saheeli, Sublime Artificer can approximate the artifact-token generation side of the equation at a fraction of the cost. If it's specifically the recursive, self-replacing threat you're after, Emry, Lurker of the Loch gets artifacts back from the graveyard for a single blue mana — a different axis, but a comparable value-engine role in decks that don't need the combat presence.

Price Context

Current price

$5.40 mid tier

At $5.40, Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader sits comfortably in the mid tier — expensive enough that you're making a deliberate choice, cheap enough that it's not a budget-breaker. It's a licensed crossover card, which tends to suppress reprint likelihood and keep prices stable, so this is roughly where it lives long-term.

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