Thopter Architect
Creature — Human Artificer
Whenever an artifact you control enters, target creature gains flying until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #22038
Thopter Architect enters the battlefield and immediately generates a 1/1 flying Thopter token for each artifact you control that entered this turn — in the right deck, that's a board of fliers on one card. The rate is real: a four-mana 2/3 that can produce multiple tokens the turn it lands is the kind of payoff artifact-storm shells are built around.
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 |
Commander is where Thopter Architect actually lives — artifact-storm and artifact-token strategies exist at every power level, and the card rewards the kind of multi-artifact turns those decks produce naturally. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but completely absent from competitive play; the rate doesn't compete with purpose-built token generators or combo pieces at that power band. Legacy and Vintage are the same story — theoretically legal, practically irrelevant when the format's artifact payoffs operate on a different axis entirely. Stick to Commander, where the casual artifact-matters ecosystem makes Thopter Architect a genuine include rather than a curiosity.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Thopter Architect is pure bulk — no secondary market pressure, no casual demand spike on the horizon. Grab as many as you need without a second thought; this is a card you pick up in a trade binder or toss into a cart to hit free shipping.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.