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Power Conduit

Artifact

{T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Choose one —
• Put a charge counter on target artifact.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$4.63
EDHREC rank
#3067
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Power Conduit card art
Power Conduit lets you strip counters off one permanent to load them onto another, turning stalled charge counters, fading counters, or anything else stranded on a dead permanent into a live resource somewhere useful. The cost is a two-mana artifact with no immediate effect — it only pays off in decks that generate counters prolifically, which is exactly where commanders like Noctis, Prince of Lucis and Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe operate. In the right shell it's an engine piece; in the wrong one it's a blank.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe

Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe

56.0% of decks · synergy 0.55

Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe loads lore counters onto Sagas, and Power Conduit lets those counters migrate rather than be wasted — keeping Saga engines churning while feeding counters to other permanents that want them.

02
Tom Bombadil

Tom Bombadil

45.2% of decks · synergy 0.43

Tom Bombadil's entire game plan revolves around Sagas hitting each chapter, and Power Conduit provides counter manipulation that interacts directly with the lore-counter economy Tom Bombadil generates every turn.

04
Yuna, Hope of Spira

Yuna, Hope of Spira

38.0% of decks · synergy 0.37

Yuna, Hope of Spira accumulates aeon counters to generate summons, and Power Conduit can redistribute those counters to accelerate the summon clock or rescue counters from permanents about to leave the battlefield.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Power Conduit is a Commander card in practice — the counter-redistribution effect is too slow and niche to make waves in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage, where the format speed and card density leave little room for a two-mana artifact that does nothing the turn it enters. In Commander, it earns its slot specifically in counter-synergy builds: Saga-heavy decks, superfriends shells, and any commander that generates counters as a resource rather than incidentally. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reason Commander is — the slower, more permanent-focused gameplay rewards engines like this one.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.63 cheap tier

At $4.63, Power Conduit sits at the high end of the cheap tier, which is a fair price for a niche enabler with a narrow but devoted audience. It holds that value as long as counter-synergy commanders stay popular in Commander, but don't expect it to climb — the card's ceiling is defined by its specificity.

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