Welder Automaton
Artifact Creature — Construct
: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aether Revolt
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #23538
Welder Automaton is a 2/2 artifact creature for three mana that pings each opponent for 1 when it dies — a marginal body with a marginal payoff. It sees fringe play only in dedicated sacrifice or artifact-synergy shells where the death trigger compounds, and even there it rarely makes the cut over cheaper or more impactful options.
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 |
Welder Automaton is legal everywhere from Pauper to Vintage, but the only format where it sees any real discussion is Pauper, where the artifact-creature card pool is shallow enough that three-mana 2/2s with marginal upside occasionally scrape into fringe consideration. In Commander it's nearly always outclassed — the death-trigger damage is negligible across 40-life opponents, and the body doesn't threaten anything. Competitive formats like Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have no use for it whatsoever.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Welder Automaton is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills out a common box and rarely gets pulled out. There's no demand driver on the horizon that would lift it, so treat it as a free inclusion if you happen to own one, not a card worth tracking down.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.