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Salvage Scout

Creature — Human Scout

{W}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Scars of Mirrodin
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#17385
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Salvage Scout card art
Salvage Scout recurs any artifact from your graveyard to your hand for a single white mana and a tap — repeatable, instant-speed, and attached to a body that triggers Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle on every historic cast. The cost is a 1/1 with no evasion that demands you keep mana open, but in the right engine, that trade is trivially worth it.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Salvage Scout is a Commander card — full stop. The redundancy and graveyard loops that make it shine require a singleton environment where every artifact recursion piece matters and games go long enough to exploit a tapping one-drop. In Pauper it's legal but unplayed; the format's aggressive commons demand more immediate board impact than a 1/1 that asks you to hold up mana. Legacy and Vintage have it on the books, but no competitive shell wants a fair recursion creature when Lurrus of the Dream-Den and Goblin Welder exist. Commander is where Salvage Scout earns its slot, specifically in artifact combo decks that loop the same pieces repeatedly and need redundancy that doesn't cost a card.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Salvage Scout is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking twice if any artifact recursion commander is on your build list. Bulk commons with narrow applications don't move much, so don't expect the price to change in either direction.

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