Salvage Scuttler
Creature — Crab
Whenever this creature attacks, return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aether Revolt
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #23168
Salvage Scuttler bounces a permanent you control when it attacks — a repeatable reset for enters-the-battlefield effects stapled to a 4/4 body for five mana. Outside of dedicated flicker or artifact-bounce shells, that rate is too slow; inside them, it earns its slot, and Charix, the Raging Isle decks run it specifically to rebuy Island-based cost reductions.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Charix, the Raging Isle
Charix, the Raging Isle cares about Islands in ways that reward replaying them, and Salvage Scuttler's attack trigger bounces a permanent — read: an Island — back to hand so you can recast it and recharge any landfall or island-counting effect on the stack.
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 |
Salvage Scuttler is a Commander card in practice — the repeatable bounce is too slow and too attack-dependent to matter in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where five mana buys you something that ends the game instead of resetting a permanent. In Commander, it occupies a narrow but real niche: flicker-adjacent artifact and creature shells that want a recursive bounce trigger on a reasonably sized body. Oathbreaker can support it in the same way Commander does, but the smaller deck size and faster games make the five-mana ask harder to justify outside a purpose-built shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Salvage Scuttler is pure bulk — pick it up from any common-bin or low-end online listing without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely recover value, so treat this as a freely swappable role-player rather than anything to hold.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.