Salvaged Manaworker
Artifact Creature — Construct
: Add one mana of any color. Activate only once each turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #23094
Salvaged Manaworker generates a Treasure token whenever another artifact you control dies — that's repeated mana conversion from board wipes and sacrifice outlets without spending a card each time. Three mana for a 2/3 that turns artifact churn into acceleration is a real rate in any deck that's already losing artifacts.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Salvaged Manaworker slots cleanly into artifact sacrifice and aristocrats shells where opponents or you are constantly killing artifacts — it converts that loss into Treasure without additional setup. Pauper is where it competes hardest, since the commons-only card pool is full of artifact synergy and cheap sacrifice loops, making the steady Treasure generation genuinely impactful. In Modern and Legacy, the effect is too slow and the body too small to compete with purpose-built artifact value engines. Pioneer and Oathbreaker follow the same logic as Commander: fine in a dedicated artifact list, invisible outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Salvaged Manaworker is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in. That price is stable by default: bulk commons rarely move unless a format-warping combo emerges, and nothing on the horizon points that direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.