Thopter Spy Network
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control an artifact, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Combos with Thopter Spy Network
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.
- Shuri, Wakandan Inventor Mindslaver Infinite
- Lock
- You control one opponent on each of their turns
- Obeka, Splitter of Seconds Time Sieve Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Stasis Urza, Lord High Artificer Infinite
- Mass Land Denial
- Players skip their untap steps
- Lock
- Time Sieve Myr Battlesphere Soulherder Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Time Sieve Myr Battlesphere Teleportation Circle Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Time Sieve Myr Battlesphere Thassa, Deep-Dwelling Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Time Sieve Myr Battlesphere Conjurer's Closet Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2015-06-22
The last ability will trigger, at most, once per combat damage step per player. However, if at least one artifact creature you control has first strike and others don't, or if an artifact creature you control has double strike, the ability could trigger twice per combat: once in each combat damage step.
- 2015-06-22
Thopter Spy Network's first ability has an “intervening ‘if' clause.” That means (1) the ability won't trigger at all unless you control an artifact as your upkeep begins, and (2) the ability will do nothing if you don't control an artifact as it resolves.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Thopter Spy Network, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sai, Master Thopterist | 10 | 1 | — |
| Saheeli, Radiant Creator | 6 | 0 | — |
| Karn, Gilded Guardian | 1 | 7 | 71.4% |
| Mendicant Core, Guidelight | 1 | 0 | — |
| Urza, Lord High Artificer | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Blue 11 decks
- Temur 6 decks
- Azorius 1 deck
- Five-Color 1 deck
Thopter Spy Network price history
The March of the Machine Commander #241 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.43 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.46 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.45 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.47 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Thopter Spy Network
9 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.
- Normal
- $0.28
- Normal
- $0.33
March of the Machine Commander
- Normal
- $0.39
- Normal
- $0.74
- Normal
- $0.58
- Normal
- $0.44
Commander 2018
- Normal
- $0.67
- Normal
- $0.57
- Foil
- $5.29
Promo
Magic Origins Promos
- Foil
- $7.35
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Thopter Spy Network. 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.
