Arcbound Worker
Arcbound Worker: Artifact Creature - Construct, Modern Masters. Modular 1 MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Artifact Creature - Construct
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Power / toughness
- 0/0
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Modern Masters (MMA)
- Released
- 2013-06-07
- Collector number
- 201
- Artist
- Darrell Riche
- Keywords
- Modular
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About Arcbound Worker
Arcbound Worker is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common colourless artifact creature from Modern Masters (MMA), a Masters set released in June 2013. It is collector number 201 in that set, with art by Darrell Riche. It costs {1} (one generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. It is a 0/0 creature. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Darksteel (2004) to Modern Masters (2013). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.28 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Modular 1 (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
The parts are as strong as the whole.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.28 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Arcbound Worker by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Arcbound Worker
Arcbound Worker has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret (DDF) #40 | Common | 2010 |
| World Championship Decks 2004 (WC04) #ap104a | Common | 2004 |
| Darksteel (DST) #104 | Common | 2004 |
Official rulings
One official ruling applies to Arcbound Worker.
- If this creature gets enough -1/-1 counters put on it to cause its toughness to be 0 or less (or the damage marked on it to be lethal), modular will put a number of +1/+1 counters on the target artifact creature equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature before it left the battlefield.
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