Viashino Weaponsmith
Creature — Lizard
Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #30372
Viashino Weaponsmith is a 2/3 for three mana with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no evasion, and no text beyond its creature types — it is a vanilla beater in a format where vanilla beaters don't make cuts. The bar for a three-mana red creature is simply higher than this.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Viashino Weaponsmith is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different conversations. In Pauper it faces a red-creature pool that demands either immediate board impact or synergy with a specific archetype, and Viashino Weaponsmith offers neither. In Commander, a 2/3 with no text is unplayable at any table — 99-card singleton demands every slot carry weight. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a do-nothing three-drop to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Viashino Weaponsmith sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price is accurate to its utility. There is no demand driver that would pull this above bulk — no combo home, no tribal payoff, no constructed application.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.