Verdant Automaton
Artifact Creature — Construct
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aether Revolt
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #28903
Verdant Automaton is a three-mana 2/3 artifact creature that can pay four mana to put a +1/+1 counter on itself — a negligible rate that no competitive deck wants. It sees play almost exclusively as a budget filler or a synergy piece in counter-matters or artifact-matters shells where any warm body with the right type line will do.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Verdant Automaton is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and played are very different things. In Commander, it occasionally appears in Proliferate or +1/+1 counter decks desperate for redundancy at the bottom of their curve, though it competes poorly with nearly every other option at three mana. In Pauper it's technically available but sees no meaningful play — the format has too many efficient threats for a vanilla-rate creature with an overcosted activated ability to earn a slot. Everywhere else, the card is invisible.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Verdant Automaton sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card that ends up in a box, not a sleeve. Don't expect the price to move; there's no competitive demand and no scarcity driving a ceiling.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.