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Patchwork Gnomes

Artifact Creature — Gnome

Discard a card: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Tempest
Price
$0.18
EDHREC rank
#15347
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Patchwork Gnomes card art
Patchwork Gnomes is a repeatable self-discard outlet stapled to a 2/2 body — the discard happens at instant speed for two mana each activation, which is the cost you pay for an engine piece rather than a piece of beef. In graveyard decks helmed by The Gitrog Monster it fuels draw triggers on demand; in Trazyn the Infinite builds it doubles as both an activated ability the commander can copy and a way to pitch artifacts into the yard.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Trazyn the Infinite

Trazyn the Infinite

50.5% of decks · synergy 0.50

Trazyn the Infinite copies activated abilities of artifact creatures in graveyards, so Patchwork Gnomes in the bin means Trazyn can fire the discard outlet himself — turning one copy into a repeatable engine without ever paying for another activation.

02
The Capitoline Triad

The Capitoline Triad

15.5% of decks · synergy 0.14

The Capitoline Triad cares about getting permanents into the graveyard efficiently, and Patchwork Gnomes provides a recursive, instant-speed way to feed that pipeline without spending a card slot on a pure enabler.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Patchwork Gnomes sees essentially no play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern despite being legal in all three — those formats have faster, cheaper discard outlets that don't require mana investment per activation. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where it occasionally shows up in graveyard-recursion lists that need a repeatable outlet on a body. Commander is where Patchwork Gnomes earns its slot: graveyard commanders that want an instant-speed, repeatable discard effect on a creature they can recur or sacrifice will reach for it, and the 2/2 body is just incidental.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.18 bulk tier

At $0.18, Patchwork Gnomes is deep bulk — you're paying for a sleeve, not the card. Demand is narrow enough that the price isn't going anywhere, so grabbing a copy out of a commons box is the move rather than paying even a small premium online.

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