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Yotian Dissident

Creature — Human Artificer

Whenever an artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{G}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The Brothers' War
Price
$0.23
EDHREC rank
#9808
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Yotian Dissident card art
Yotian Dissident puts a +1/+1 counter on itself every time you play a historic spell — artifacts, legendaries, or sagas — turning any artifact-heavy or food-token shell into a threat that grows faster than opponents expect. The cost is real: two mana gets you a 1/1 with no immediate impact, so it earns its slot only in decks that reliably trigger it multiple times a turn, exactly what Lonis, Genetics Expert and Rocco, Street Chef are built to do.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Rocco, Street Chef

Rocco, Street Chef

44.9% of decks · synergy 0.43

Rocco, Street Chef generates food tokens on every nontoken creature you cast, and those artifact tokens fire Yotian Dissident's counter trigger — so the Dissident grows in parallel with the board while Rocco converts spare food into card selection.

02
Samwise Gamgee

Samwise Gamgee

28.5% of decks · synergy 0.28

Samwise Gamgee triggers whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield, creating food tokens that double as historic spells for Yotian Dissident, letting the two cards build counters and board presence off a single line of play.

03
Morska, Undersea Sleuth

Morska, Undersea Sleuth

18.7% of decks · synergy 0.18

Morska, Undersea Sleuth rewards you for playing legendaries, which are themselves historic, so Yotian Dissident picks up counters almost incidentally as the deck does what it already wants to do.

04
Dyadrine, Synthesis Amalgam

Dyadrine, Synthesis Amalgam

15.4% of decks · synergy 0.15

Dyadrine, Synthesis Amalgam copies artifact spells and tokens, and each of those copies counts as a historic spell for Yotian Dissident, compounding the counter triggers well beyond what the raw card count suggests.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Yotian Dissident actually lives — artifact-centric and legendary-matters builds trigger it repeatedly enough that the counter accumulation becomes meaningful, and the two-mana investment is easy to justify when the whole deck feeds it. In Modern and Pioneer it competes with creatures that demand an immediate board impact at two mana, and a 1/1 that needs setup rarely clears that bar outside dedicated artifact synergy shells. Legacy and Vintage have the artifact density to fire Yotian Dissident's ability frequently, but those formats also have enough raw power that a slow grower sits well below the threshold of playability. Stick to Commander unless you're brewing a focused artifact midrange list in a lower-power constructed environment.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.23 bulk tier

At $0.23, Yotian Dissident is pure bulk — you can pick up a playset for under a dollar and never think about the price again. Bulk rares with narrow synergy windows rarely move upward, so grab copies for the decks that want it now and don't expect the price to do anything interesting.

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