Patched Plaything
Artifact Creature — Toy
Double strike
This creature enters with two -1/-1 counters on it if you cast it from your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #20564
Patched Plaything enters as a 2/2 artifact creature for two mana — acceptable stats, zero text box, nothing else going on. It's a filler card that occupies a slot better used by a creature with an ability or an artifact with a payoff.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Patched Plaything is legal across every major constructed format, but that legality doesn't translate to relevance in any of them. In Commander, a vanilla 2/2 for two does nothing to advance a board state at a table where threats routinely have five or more toughness by turn four. Constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer have two-drop creatures that accrue value, generate tokens, or threaten combat trick chains — Patched Plaything does none of that. It's not unplayable in a strict sense, but every format it's legal in has strictly better options at the same cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Patched Plaything sits firmly in bulk territory, and there's no pressure driving that upward. The low price reflects the card's ceiling accurately — pick it up only if a specific artifact-count payoff demands every warm body in the type line.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.