Runaway Trash-Bot
Artifact Creature — Construct
Trample
This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact and/or enchantment card in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #19866
Runaway Trash-Bot is a self-replacing blocker that mills you and returns a random artifact from your graveyard to hand — payoff depends entirely on what's in the bin. The cost is steep for what you get in most contexts, but in dedicated artifact-graveyard shells it earns its slot.
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 |
Runaway Trash-Bot is legal in Commander, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. The self-mill and artifact recursion scale with graveyard density, which is far easier to achieve over a 99-card game than in 60-card formats where every slot is precious. In Modern and Pioneer, the mana cost is prohibitive relative to faster, cheaper recursion options. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — those formats don't need a slow, conditional artifact engine. Commander is where Runaway Trash-Bot finds its niche: artifact-heavy decks that want incidental graveyard value and can actually use the random recursion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Runaway Trash-Bot is deep bulk — grab a playset out of a common box and forget about it. Bulk artifact creatures with narrow applications don't climb in price, so there's no reason to rush or speculate.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.