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Foundry Inspector

Artifact Creature — Construct MV 3

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What it does

Artifact spells you cast cost 1 less to cast.

Combos with Foundry Inspector

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2016-09-20

    Once a player has announced an artifact spell, no player may take actions to try to remove Foundry Inspector from the battlefield before that spell's cost is locked in.

  • 2016-09-20

    If an artifact spell has X in its mana cost, choose the value for X first, and then reduce the cost by 1. For example, an artifact that costs X with X chosen as 4 costs 3 to cast if you control Foundry Inspector.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Foundry Inspector, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 16
Games played 7
Win rate 71.4%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Sai, Master Thopterist 3 0 —
Karn, Gilded Guardian 1 6 66.7%
Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer 1 1 —
Breya, Etherium Shaper 1 0 —
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 1 0 —
Mishra, Eminent One 1 0 —
Smaug the Magnificent 1 0 —
Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Blue 4 decks
  • Izzet 2 decks
  • Mono-Black 1 deck
  • Mono-Red 1 deck
  • Grixis 1 deck
  • Four-Color (no Green) 1 deck
  • Five-Color 1 deck

Foundry Inspector price history

The Commander Masters #385 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.40▲ $0.03 (8.1%)
Low $0.37 · High $0.40Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 6, 2026$0.40$1.88
Oct 3, 2026$0.40$1.90
Sep 30, 2026$0.40$1.87
Sep 29, 2026$0.39$1.87
Sep 28, 2026$0.37$1.90

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Foundry Inspector

13 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Foundry Inspector. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.