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Thermal Navigator

Artifact Creature — Construct

Sacrifice an artifact: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
Fifth Dawn
Price
$0.23
EDHREC rank
#20789
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Thermal Navigator card art
Thermal Navigator gives any artifact creature a turn of evasion for two mana and a sacrifice — relevant when you need to push through a board stall or set up a combo attack. The cost is real: you're eating a permanent to activate it, which makes it a near-auto-include in decks like Emry, Lurker of the Loch that want artifacts in the graveyard anyway.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Thermal Navigator is a niche role-player — it shows up in artifact-recursion shells where the sacrifice is a feature, not a bug. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have far more efficient ways to grant evasion, so Thermal Navigator doesn't register in those formats competitively. Pauper is the one non-Commander context where a cheap, repeatable flying-grant on a common body could theoretically earn a slot in an artifact-synergy build, though it still faces stiff competition from more efficient commons.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.23 bulk tier

At $0.23, Thermal Navigator is pure bulk — grab it from any commons box without a second thought. Demand is too narrow to move the price, so it will stay at this floor indefinitely.

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