Scrapyard Salvo
Sorcery
Scrapyard Salvo deals damage to target player or planeswalker equal to the number of artifact cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #26936
Scrapyard Salvo deals damage equal to the number of artifact cards in your graveyard to any target — in a dedicated artifact recursion or self-mill shell, that number gets large fast. Two red mana for a potentially lethal burn spell is a real rate; in the wrong deck it's a blank.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Scrapyard Salvo is a Commander card through and through — graveyard accumulation over a full game is where the damage ceiling actually matters, and artifact-heavy commanders like Daretti, Scrap Savant or Breya, Etherium Shaper can turn it into a one-shot kill out of nowhere. In Pauper it's legal but competes in a format where burn needs to be reliably efficient from turn one, and filling a graveyard with artifacts takes setup that most Pauper decks can't afford. Legacy and Vintage have the artifact density to theoretically abuse it, but those formats close games through faster, more consistent lines, so Scrapyard Salvo never sees play there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Scrapyard Salvo is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar bin or ordering a playset for the price of a coffee. Bulk rares don't appreciate unless they spike into a competitive shell, and nothing on the horizon suggests that's coming, so treat it as a cheap role-player and nothing more.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.