Plasma Caster
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you get 
(two energy counters).
Pay : Choose target creature that's blocking equipped creature. Flip a coin. If you win the flip, exile the chosen creature. Otherwise, this Equipment deals 1 damage to it.
Equip 
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #7683
Plasma Caster turns every artifact creature you control into a free ping — a repeatable damage engine that scales with board width rather than requiring extra mana. Liberty Prime, Recharged is the obvious home, but any artifact-creature-heavy deck gets real mileage out of a two-mana enchantment that punishes opponents for simply existing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Liberty Prime, Recharged
Liberty Prime, Recharged runs an artifact-creature-dense strategy by design, and Plasma Caster converts every token or robot on board into a damage trigger — 80% inclusion across Liberty Prime decks reflects that this is close to a mandatory slot.
Dr. Madison Li
Dr. Madison Li rewards building around artifact synergies, and Plasma Caster provides a low-cost damage outlet that triggers independently of whatever else the deck is assembling — half of all Dr. Madison Li decks run it for exactly that redundancy.
Satya, Aetherflux Genius
Satya, Aetherflux Genius generates token copies of artifact creatures, and Plasma Caster translates that token flood directly into damage without needing to attack — a clean pairing that roughly one in five Satya builds picks up.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Plasma Caster is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually sees play — the format's artifact-creature synergy commanders give it a natural home that Legacy and Vintage's faster, more focused gameplans don't. In Commander, a two-mana enchantment that generates incremental damage across a long game is exactly the type of card that quietly wins races or pressures life totals while the table is focused elsewhere. Legacy and Vintage have access to Plasma Caster but no real reason to run it; the formats move too fast for a slow-burn enchantment to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Plasma Caster sits firmly in bulk territory — a negligible inclusion cost for any artifact-creature deck that wants it. Bulk enchantments with narrow homes tend to stay cheap, so there's no urgency either way.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Liberty Prime, Recharged
- Dr. Madison Li
- Satya, Aetherflux Genius
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.