Reclusive Artificer
Creature — Human Artificer
Haste (This creature can attack and 
as soon as it comes under your control.)
When this creature enters, you may have it deal damage to target creature equal to the number of artifacts you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic Origins
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #24257
Reclusive Artificer enters the battlefield and immediately deals damage equal to the number of artifacts you control to any target — that's a Lightning Bolt that scales with your board stapled to a 2/3 Human Artificer body for four mana. The rate is clunky in most shells, but in a dense artifact deck it routinely connects for five or more damage the turn it lands.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Reclusive Artificer earns a real roster spot — artifact-heavy commanders like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Daretti, Scrap Savant can easily have ten or more artifacts in play, turning the enters-the-battlefield trigger into a meaningful threat or finisher. In Modern and Pioneer the four-mana slot is brutally competitive and the payoff is too conditional to justify over established threats. Legacy and Vintage simply ignore it. Reclusive Artificer is a Commander card, full stop.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Reclusive Artificer is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or grab a copy from a dollar box without a second thought. The price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile artifact commander pushes it into wider demand, but at this tier you're not buying it for the upside; you're buying it because it costs nothing.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.