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Rook Turret

Artifact Creature — Construct

Flying
Whenever another artifact you control enters, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Final Fantasy
Price
$0.16
EDHREC rank
#9198
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Rook Turret card art
Rook Turret puts a repeatable damage engine on the board that rewards you for doing what artifact-heavy decks already want to do. Mary Read and Anne Bonny and Golbez, Crystal Collector both lean on it hard, and the cost of inclusion is essentially nothing — it's a cheap enchantment that asks very little and pays out every time you cast or crew something.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Golbez, Crystal Collector

Golbez, Crystal Collector

44.7% of decks · synergy 0.43

Golbez, Crystal Collector runs Rook Turret in nearly half of all builds because the commander's artifact-summoning engine triggers it constantly — every Crystal or artifact Golbez generates feeds directly into free pings that add up faster than opponents expect.

02
Noctis, Prince of Lucis

Noctis, Prince of Lucis

12.6% of decks · synergy 0.12

Noctis, Prince of Lucis casts a stream of Vehicles and equipment, and Rook Turret converts each of those casts into incremental damage that the deck otherwise lacks a clean outlet for.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Rook Turret is legal everywhere but earns its slot almost exclusively in Commander, where artifact-centric strategies can fire it multiple times per turn cycle. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the effect is too slow and too incidental — you're not casting enough artifacts per turn to justify the enchantment slot over a direct threat. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where a dedicated artifacts-matter shell could theoretically abuse it, but the payoff still lags behind more proactive options at common. Stick to Commander, specifically inside artifact storm or Vehicles builds, where Rook Turret quietly accumulates damage while the deck executes its main plan.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.16 bulk tier

At $0.16, Rook Turret is deep bulk — grab it out of a dollar bin or toss it into any order without thinking twice. Bulk commons and uncommons from supplemental products rarely climb unless a format-defining deck adopts them, and nothing about Rook Turret's role suggests that's coming, so treat it as a free inclusion rather than a spec.

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