Yotia Declares War
Enchantment — Saga
Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Create a 0/2 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying named Ornithopter.
II — Tap any number of untapped artifacts you control. When you do, this Saga deals that much damage to target creature or planeswalker.
III — Up to one target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 4/4 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #20426
Yotia Declares War jams three artifacts onto the battlefield — a 1/1 Thopter, a 2/2 Construct, and a tapped copy of any artifact from your hand — then untaps them all and grants haste for the turn. The cost is four mana at sorcery speed, which is steep unless you're already leaning on artifact payoffs like Aetherflux Reservoir where flooding the board on a single card matters.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Yotia Declares War is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only earns a slot in Commander where artifact synergy decks can fully exploit the token flood and the free artifact deployment. In Modern and Pioneer, four mana at sorcery speed for two small tokens is simply too slow against the format's pace, and competitive artifact lists have tighter options. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest — those formats play artifacts to combo on turn one, not to generate 1/1s. Commander is the card's natural home, specifically in artifact-centric builds where every additional permanent on the battlefield triggers payoffs or fuels engines.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Aetherflux ReservoirYotia Declares War
Infinite damage; Infinite lifegain triggers
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Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Yotia Declares War sits firmly in bulk territory. It holds that price because demand is real but narrow — casual artifact Commander players want it, but not in enough volume to push it higher.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.