Thopter Assembly

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Thopter Assembly: Artifact Creature - Thopter, March of the Machine Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{6}
Mana value
6
Type
Artifact Creature - Thopter
Colour identity
Colourless
Power / toughness
5/5
Rarity
Rare
Set
March of the Machine Commander (MOC)
Released
2023-04-21
Collector number
386
Artist
Svetlin Velinov
Commander rank
5,272 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Flying

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About Thopter Assembly

Thopter Assembly is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact creature from March of the Machine Commander (MOC), a Commander product released in April 2023. It is collector number 386 in that set, with art by Svetlin Velinov. It costs {6} (six generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 5/5 creature. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 6 sets, from Mirrodin Besieged (2011) to March of the Machine Commander (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.49 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control no Thopters other than this creature, return this creature to its owner's hand and create five 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.49 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Thopter Assembly by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PreDHLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Thopter Assembly

Thopter Assembly has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Commander 2018 (C18) #226Rare2018
Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors (DDU) #63Rare2018
Magic Online Promos (PRM) #39638Rare2011
Mirrodin Besieged (MBS) #140Rare2011
Mirrodin Besieged Promos (PMBS) #140★Rare2011

Official rulings

One official ruling applies to Thopter Assembly.

  • The triggered ability looks for any permanent you control with the creature type Thopter, not just the Thopter tokens previously created by a Thopter Assembly.

Similar cards

Other artifact creature cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

In these precons

Thopter Assembly is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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