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Salvaging Station

Artifact

{T}: Return target noncreature artifact card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Whenever a creature dies, you may untap this artifact.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{6}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Fifth Dawn
Price
$1.87
EDHREC rank
#12778
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Salvaging Station card art
Salvaging Station is a combo engine that untaps whenever a creature dies, letting you chain artifact recursion into a loop — most commonly alongside Blasting Station to deal repeated damage with zero-mana artifacts. The setup cost is real: five mana to land, another two to equip, and you need at least two other moving parts to do anything broken.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Salvaging Station actually lives — the format's singleton density of cheap artifacts and death-trigger loops gives it enough redundancy to function, and the 100-card format rewards the kind of multi-piece engine it anchors. Legacy and Vintage both permit it, but the five-mana investment is glacially slow in those formats and no serious archetype wants it. Salvaging Station is Commander-only in practice.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.87 cheap tier

At $1.87, Salvaging Station sits in the cheap tier — low enough that it's a trivial include if you're building around it. Supply is stable and demand comes almost entirely from Commander combo brewers, so the price isn't going anywhere dramatic in either direction.

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