Card
Scrap Trawler
Mana cost {3}
Artifact Creature — Construct 3/2
Whenever this creature dies or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 440 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · AER · #175
- Cheapest printing
- €1.24
- EDHREC salt
- 0.38
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
440 known combos.
- Scrap Trawler + Myr Retriever + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Foundry Inspector
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Scrap Trawler + Myr Retriever + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Sol Ring + Junk Diver
Produces: Infinite blinking of some artifacts, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Scrap Trawler + Myr Retriever + Ashnod's Altar + Foundry Inspector
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast
The target artifact card must have a lesser mana value than the artifact that caused Scrap Trawler's ability to trigger by being put into a graveyard. Use the artifact's mana value as it last existed on the battlefield to determine what may be returned. - 2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast
If an artifact is a copy of another artifact with greater mana value, such as Sculpting Steel copying an artifact with mana value 4, Scrap Trawler's ability can target that artifact card in your graveyard when that artifact is put into your graveyard. - 2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast
While on the battlefield or in a graveyard, {X} in an object's mana cost is 0. - 2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast
If Scrap Trawler and another artifact you control are put into a graveyard at the same time, Scrap Trawler's ability triggers for each of them.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast