Survey Mechan
- Mana cost
- {4}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Robot
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 3
- Set
- Edge of Eternities #245 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.23 USD
Flying
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
{10}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 3 damage to any target. Target player draws three cards and gains 3 life. This ability costs {X} less to activate, where X is the number of differently named lands you control.
Survey Mechan has 1 printing, first in Edge of Eternities (2025). EDHREC ranks it #10,615 among Commander cards. It appears most in Toph, the First Metalbender decks (5,982 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Survey Mechan most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Toph, the First Metalbender: 5,982 decks
- Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor: 109 decks
- Emil, Vastlands Roamer: 27 decks
- Alpharael, Dreaming Acolyte: 16 decks
- Captain Pike, Fullness of Time: 8 decks
- The Traveler: 3 decks
- Ensign Pavel Chekov: 2 decks
- Abomination, World Ravager: 1 decks
Often played with Survey Mechan
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : To determine the number of differently named lands you control, count each land you control once, but only if its English name isn’t exactly the same as another land you’ve already counted this way.
- : Use the sacrificed creature’s power as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how many cards to draw with Susur Secundi’s last ability.
- : Once you announce you’re activating an ability, no player may take actions until after the ability has been paid for. Notably, opponents can’t try to remove lands you control from the battlefield at that time.
- : Once you determine the cost to activate Survey Mechan’s last ability, you may activate mana abilities to pay that cost. If the number of differently named lands you control changes while activating mana abilities (probably because you sacrificed one or more lands), the cost to activate the ability remains what you previously determined.