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Weapons Manufacturing

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken artifact you control enters, create a colorless artifact token named Munitions with "When this token leaves the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to any target."

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
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EDHREC rank
#3794
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Weapons Manufacturing card art
Weapons Manufacturing lands a pile of artifact tokens on the spot — the number scales with X, which means a single cast can flood the board in one action. The cost is real mana investment, but Ragost, Deft Gastronaut turns those tokens into repeated triggers, and Nim Deathmantle loops make that pile effectively infinite.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

84.1% of decks · synergy 0.75

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut appears in over 84% of decks running Weapons Manufacturing because the tokens feed directly into Ragost's sacrifice-and-draw engine, converting a large X-spell into immediate card advantage. The pairing is the core game plan, not a supporting piece.

02
Imskir Iron-Eater

Imskir Iron-Eater

45.1% of decks · synergy 0.44

Imskir Iron-Eater wants a critical mass of artifacts to sacrifice for life and power, and Weapons Manufacturing delivers a customizable batch in one shot. The more tokens you make, the more fuel Imskir has for a single devastating attack.

03
Ashnod the Uncaring

Ashnod the Uncaring

38.6% of decks · synergy 0.38

Ashnod the Uncaring copies activated abilities, which means sacrifice triggers from the tokens Weapons Manufacturing creates get doubled — turning one sorcery into exponential value. The artifact typing matters too, feeding artifact-matters payoffs in the same 99.

04
Sami, Wildcat Captain

Sami, Wildcat Captain

41.3% of decks · synergy 0.33

Sami, Wildcat Captain rewards going wide with artifact creatures, and Weapons Manufacturing is one of the cleanest ways to build that wide board in a single turn. The token count scales into Sami's attack triggers immediately.

05
Daretti, Scrap Savant

Daretti, Scrap Savant

32.2% of decks · synergy 0.30

Daretti, Scrap Savant's recursion package loves a graveyard full of artifacts, and Weapons Manufacturing gives you throwaways to sacrifice and recur with Daretti's minus ability. It's reliable fodder that also happens to threaten a board state if left alone.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Weapons Manufacturing actually gets to do its job — the format's slower pace and larger life totals give you the turns needed to cast a meaningful X, and the density of sacrifice, token, and artifact payoffs means the spell rarely arrives without a home. In competitive Commander it's a combo piece first; in casual tables it's a board-presence spell that scales to however much mana you can generate. Constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer are legal destinations, but Weapons Manufacturing is too slow and too conditional for those formats' requirements — paying X for tokens with no ETB text or haste is simply outclassed by what those formats demand. Standard legality is worth noting for limited formats, but outside of Commander the card is purely a build-around that needs the right engine to justify the mana.

Key Combos

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Price Context

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Pricing data for Weapons Manufacturing isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for the current market rate. Given its near-ubiquitous inclusion in Ragost, Deft Gastronaut builds, demand is real — if the price is low now, that's the window.

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