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Thopter Squadron

Artifact Creature — Thopter

Flying
This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Activate only as a sorcery.
{1}, Sacrifice another Thopter: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Exodus
Price
$1.57
EDHREC rank
#15463
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Thopter Squadron card art
Thopter Squadron enters as a self-contained army — pay mana, make 1/1 flyers, reassemble them back into a bigger body whenever you want. The cost is real: the mana sink is slow and the base stats are unimpressive, so Thopter Squadron earns its slot only in decks that either abuse enter-the-battlefield triggers or scale the token count into something threatening. Stridehangar Automaton and Leonardo da Vinci are the commanders that make this click; everywhere else it's a backup plan at best.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

13.3% of decks · synergy 0.13

Leonardo da Vinci rewards you for flooding the board with artifact tokens, and Thopter Squadron gives you a repeatable, on-demand source of them — crack the Squadron down to populate the battlefield, then rebuild when you need a flying blocker or a sacrifice outlet target.

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

Commander is where Thopter Squadron actually belongs — the 100-card singleton format is slow enough that a six-mana creature with a built-in engine has time to generate value, and artifact-token strategies are thick with payoffs for every token produced. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but entirely outclassed; nothing in those formats gives a six-mana 3/3 the runway it needs, and faster, cheaper threats do the same job without the mana investment. Thopter Squadron is effectively a Commander card with legacy paperwork.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.57 cheap tier

At $1.57, Thopter Squadron sits in the cheap tier — low enough that it's an easy pickup for any artifact or token build curious about the effect. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike unless a high-profile commander deck breaks the token-reassembly loop wide open.

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