Scrapper Champion
Creature — Human Artificer
Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
When this creature enters, you get 
(two energy counters).
Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay . If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aether Revolt
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #22240
Scrapper Champion enters with a +1/+1 counter and rewards you again every time another counter lands on it — that's a repeating damage trigger stapled to a creature that grows. The ask is a three-mana Boros body, which is a real cost, but the payoff in any counter-heavy shell makes it an easy inclusion.
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 |
In Commander, Scrapper Champion slots cleanly into any Boros or multicolor counters deck as a low-cost, repeating damage payoff — the four-player environment means its trigger adds up fast against opponents who can't or won't block it. Competitive formats are less kind: Modern and Pioneer already have more efficient three-drops, and the trigger only fires on additional counters after the first, which requires deck infrastructure that faster formats don't want to dedicate slots to. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power available to generate counters at speed, but neither format is looking for a 3/3 as a win condition. Oathbreaker is the sleeper home — if your planeswalker generates counters or cares about +1/+1 counters, Champion is a live threat that punishes the smaller table's slower development.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Scrapper Champion is firmly bulk — you're paying cents for a card with genuine synergy upside in the right shell. Bulk rares with specific-archetype appeal rarely spike unless a new commander supercharges the strategy, so treat it as a free pickup now rather than a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.