Toolcraft Exemplar
Creature — Dwarf Artificer
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control an artifact, this creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn. If you control three or more artifacts, it also gains first strike until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kaladesh
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #19463
Toolcraft Exemplar is a one-mana 3/2 first striker on turn two — that's a threat-per-mana ratio most aggressive creature suites can't touch. The catch is the artifact requirement: no artifact in play at the start of combat, and it's a vanilla 1/1.
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 |
Pioneer is where Toolcraft Exemplar has done its real work, as a core piece of white-based artifact aggro lists that can reliably deploy an artifact on turn one. In Modern, the competition at one mana is steep enough that it rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated artifact shells. Commander is the wrong home entirely — a conditional 3/2 doesn't scale to a 40-life multiplayer game, and artifact synergy commanders have far better one-drops to consider.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Toolcraft Exemplar is deep bulk — pick it up for virtually nothing if you're building artifact aggro in Pioneer. Don't expect the price to move; supply is wide and demand is format-specific.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.