Circuit Mender

Circuit Mender

Mana Cost: {3}

Type: Artifact Creature — Insect

Oracle Text:
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card.

Power/Toughness: 2/3

Rarity: uncommon

Prints: View all prints (1) →

Expansion: Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty

Price ( USD): $0.35

USD: $0.35 · EUR: €0.21

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Character Background

Circuit Mender feels like a small Neon Dynasty workbee—an artifact insect that patches broken hardware while offering steady resource play. On a practical level it's a pure-value three‑drop: a 2/3 body that gains you 2 life on entry and converts removal into card advantage when it dies, which means it best supports a midrange/value or control game plan that wants incremental advantage and survivability rather than all‑in aggression. It shines in artifact suites and decks that can repeatedly reuse enter/leave triggers—blink effects (Cloudshift/Ephemerate or more modern flicker tools) let you milk life gain and re-trigger the ETB, while sacrifice engines like Altar of Dementia turn its leave-the-battlefield clause into intentional card draw and graveyard fuel. Deckbuilding tip: treat it as a two-to-three-of in grindy builds, pair it with cheap blink or sacrifice pieces, and don’t be afraid to capitalize on removal as a free card rather than a tempo loss.

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