Salvage Titan
Artifact Creature — Golem
You may sacrifice three artifacts rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Exile three artifact cards from your graveyard: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.40
- EDHREC rank
- #21262
Salvage Titan is a 6/4 artifact creature you can cast for free by exiling three artifacts from your graveyard — and when it hits the bin, it pulls those artifacts back. The recursion loop is the entire point: this card earns its slot in artifact-heavy decks that want a repeatable, cost-free threat.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Salvage Titan fits narrow but real: artifact graveyard decks that already run dense artifact counts get a free 6/4 with built-in recursion, which is a meaningful rate when the alternative cost is six mana. Modern and Legacy both have the raw artifact density to enable the alternate cost, but neither format is hunting for a slow, non-evasive six-power body when Affinity and Hardened Scales offer faster closes. Salvage Titan is effectively a Commander card — the 100-card singleton format punishes over-reliance on any one line, so the self-recurring angle has more relevance there than in 60-card formats optimizing for speed.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.40 bulk tier
At $0.40, Salvage Titan sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in, not a purchase. Bulk artifact creatures with narrow applications rarely climb unless a new commander or combo piece drags them into the spotlight, so treat this as a cheap role-player, not a sleeper.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.