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The Peregrine Dynamo

Legendary Artifact Creature — Construct

Haste
{1}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control from another legendary source that's not a commander. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Dominaria United Commander
Price
$3.18
EDHREC rank
#6149
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The Peregrine Dynamo card art
The Peregrine Dynamo copies a loyalty ability when it taps — no additional cost, just mana to activate it — making every planeswalker on the board functionally double its output. Commanders built around stacking loyalty counters, like Carth the Lion, or generating value from repeated activations, like Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset, treat it as a must-include.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Carth the Lion

Carth the Lion

51.7% of decks · synergy 0.51

Carth the Lion's static ability already searches up planeswalkers and pumps their loyalty; The Peregrine Dynamo turns each activation into two, compounding the counter advantage and accelerating every ultimate on the board.

02
Dihada, Binder of Wills

Dihada, Binder of Wills

30.4% of decks · synergy 0.29

Dihada, Binder of Wills protects her own loyalty with her minus ability and wants to ultimate fast — The Peregrine Dynamo copies that minus or plus every turn, getting Dihada to game-ending territory ahead of schedule.

03
Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge

Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge

23.4% of decks · synergy 0.22

Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge rewards legendary permanents, and The Peregrine Dynamo qualifies while also doubling the output of any legendary planeswalker in the deck — two roles for one slot.

04
Commodore Guff

Commodore Guff

18.5% of decks · synergy 0.18

Commodore Guff runs a planeswalker-dense strategy where every extra loyalty activation compounds; The Peregrine Dynamo effectively gives the whole table of walkers a second activation each turn cycle.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

The Peregrine Dynamo is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it's actually played. Legacy and Vintage have no meaningful planeswalker-doubling shell that wants a three-mana artifact over faster interaction, so it doesn't register there. In Oathbreaker, where the oathbreaker is itself a planeswalker, The Peregrine Dynamo is structurally powerful — copying your oathbreaker's ability every turn is a real effect — but the format's smaller 60-card construction keeps it niche. Commander is where it lives: 100-card decks built around specific planeswalkers have the space and redundancy to support it, and the multiplayer pace gives you time to tap it repeatedly.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.18 cheap tier

At $3.18, The Peregrine Dynamo sits in budget-include territory for any deck that wants it — cheap enough to add without deliberation, and its narrow application means demand is concentrated in planeswalker-centric builds rather than broad. That specialization tends to keep the price stable rather than rising, so there's no urgency, but no reason to wait either.

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