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Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic
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Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
GUR
· URG
Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). At the beginning of your end step, you may pay one or more {E}. If you do, create an X/X colorless Vehicle artifact token named Nalaar Aetherjet with flying and crew 2, where X is the amount of {E} paid this way.
Budget
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36 lands · total $100.00 budget: $100
U 19 R 19 G 20 C 6
Composition 16 Basics 11 Other Nonbasic 3 Filter Lands 2 Horizon Lands 2 Shock Lands 1 Bond Lands 1 Tap Duals

EDHREC hasn’t published enough decks for Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic yet, so this manabase isn’t drawn from real-deck inclusion data. It’s ranked by a land-quality heuristic instead — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first, then basics split across the identity. A solid baseline to start from, not a tuned list.

Commander Staples

$70.20 10

Cycle Picks · Best to Worst

$29.80 9

Other Nonbasics

$0.00 1

Basics

$1.05 16

About This Manabase

Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic is a URG commander with a URG color identity, so any land that produces only those colors is fair game. Our auto-built manabase above starts at the Optimized $100 tier. EDHREC doesn’t yet have deck data for Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic, so picks are ranked by a land-quality heuristic — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first (shocks and untapped fixing, dropping to scry and tap-duals as the cap tightens), with the rest filled by basics split across the identity. The picker always includes Commander staples like Command Tower, Reflecting Pool, Exotic Orchard , and others when they fit your identity — these are nearly auto-includes in any EDH deck. From the catalogued cycles, the picker pulled Stomping Ground, Breeding Pool, Spire Garden, Waterlogged Grove , plus 5 more for Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic's manabase.

Pick a tier above to reshape the manabase. The Budget ($25) tier leans on basics and the cheapest utility lands; Optimized ($100) adds the best mid-priced duals and untapped fixing the budget allows; Unlimited drops the price cap so premium duals and in-identity fetches come in. Filter out tap-lands for faster decks, or pin yourself to fetchable lands for a fetch-heavy ramp shell.