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Sarinth Steelseeker

Creature — Human Artificer Scout

Whenever an artifact you control enters, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The Brothers' War
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#4774
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Sarinth Steelseeker card art
Sarinth Steelseeker turns every artifact entering the battlefield into a Treasure-fueled card filter, and it does that work for two mana. Chalk Outline and The Cabbage Merchant both hit the top of that synergy list hard, but the raw rate here is good enough that artifact-heavy Commander decks of all stripes want it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
The Cabbage Merchant

The Cabbage Merchant

56.0% of decks · synergy 0.55

The Cabbage Merchant generates Food tokens on a loop, and Sarinth Steelseeker converts each of those artifact triggers into a Treasure plus a scry, turning the Food engine into mana acceleration and card selection simultaneously.

02
Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Lonis, Cryptozoologist

51.0% of decks · synergy 0.50

Lonis, Cryptozoologist makes a Clue whenever a creature enters under your control, and Sarinth Steelseeker rewards every one of those Clue artifacts with another Treasure and a scry — the two cards form a self-reinforcing engine that filters and funds itself.

03
Meria, Scholar of Antiquity

Meria, Scholar of Antiquity

52.1% of decks · synergy 0.50

Meria, Scholar of Antiquity untaps artifacts for mana, and Sarinth Steelseeker feeds that engine by generating Treasures off every artifact trigger — more artifacts mean more untap targets, which means more mana to cast artifacts, which means more Steelseeker triggers.

04
Samwise Gamgee

Samwise Gamgee

49.2% of decks · synergy 0.48

Samwise Gamgee creates Food tokens whenever a historic permanent enters, and Sarinth Steelseeker scries and makes Treasure off each of those Foods, converting a lifegain-adjacent engine into genuine card quality and acceleration.

05
The Most Dangerous Gamer

The Most Dangerous Gamer

41.4% of decks · synergy 0.40

The Most Dangerous Gamer hunts down and creates artifact tokens throughout the game, and Sarinth Steelseeker rewards that flow of artifacts with Treasures and scries that keep the hand stocked and the mana flowing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Sarinth Steelseeker earns its keep — artifact synergy decks in that format run enough triggers to make the Treasure-plus-scry output genuinely meaningful over a long game. In Modern and Pioneer, the two-mana body is underpowered for a format that punishes slow incremental payoffs, and dedicated artifact shells there have stronger options at the same slot. Legacy and Vintage have the same problem at a higher ceiling: the card does nothing the turn it enters, and those formats don't give you the runway to accumulate value. Sarinth Steelseeker is a Commander card first and a bulk rare everywhere else.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Sarinth Steelseeker is firmly bulk, and the price reflects its Commander-only demand — the effect is real but niche enough that it won't climb without a breakout artifact commander pushing it into the spotlight. Buy a copy when you need it; there's no reason to stock up.

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