Steelswarm Operator
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flying
T: Add . Spend this mana only to cast an artifact spell.
T: Add . Spend this mana only to activate abilities of artifact sources.
Combos with Steelswarm Operator
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.
- Filigree Sages Training Grounds Infinite
- Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce
- Infinite untap of artifacts you control
- Infinite blue mana that can only be spent to activate abilities of artifacts
- Infinite blue mana that can only be spent to cast artifact spells
- Memnarch Freed from the Real Infinite
- Infinite blue mana that can only be spent to activate abilities of artifacts
- Infinite blue mana that can only be spent to cast artifact spells
- Agatha's Soul Cauldron Horseshoe Crab Infinite
- Infinite blue mana that can only be spent to cast artifact spells
- Infinite blue mana that can only be spent to activate abilities of artifacts
- Rex, Cyber-Hound Knacksaw Clique Infinite
- Exile each opponent's library
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2025-07-25
An “artifact source” is any object with the card type artifact. This means you could spend the mana from Steelswarm Operator’s last ability to activate an ability of an artifact you control or an artifact card in your hand or graveyard, for example.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Steelswarm Operator, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karn, Gilded Guardian | 1 | 6 | 66.7% |
Colors it shows up in
- Five-Color 1 deck
Steelswarm Operator price history
The Edge of Eternities #80 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.28 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.28 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.28 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.29 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.29 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.30 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Steelswarm Operator
1 printing, 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.
- Normal
- $0.25
- Foil
- $0.28
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Steelswarm Operator. 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.
