Utrom Scientists
Artifact Creature — Utrom Robot Scientist
When this creature enters, tap up to one target creature and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #23566
Utrom Scientists lands as a creature that generates artifact tokens on entry or attack — raw board presence at a low mana investment. The ceiling is real in artifact-matters shells, and the floor is a forgettable body that trades into a 2/2.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the correct home for Utrom Scientists — token generation scales with flicker effects, artifact payoffs, and sacrifice outlets that the format's card pool makes trivially easy to assemble. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the competition at its slot is too steep: you're asking Utrom Scientists to compete with cards that win games outright rather than accumulate incremental value. Pauper is worth a look if artifact synergies are the deck's engine, since the commons pool rewards exactly this kind of steady token production. Standard is legal but largely irrelevant unless a dedicated artifact theme is dominant in the format at a given moment.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Utrom Scientists is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Bulk artifact-synergy pieces at this price tier rarely climb unless a breakout Commander deck or competitive list puts them on the map, so grab copies freely and don't expect the number to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.