Metalworker Price

Updated 2026-06-29

Metalworker from Urza's Destiny is the mana engine that defines the Vintage and Legacy artifact decks built around Mishra's Workshop. It is banned in Legacy and restricted in Vintage, which is the clearest certification of a card's competitive impact. Despite ban-list status limiting active tournament deployment, Metalworker retains strong collector demand because Urza's Destiny was not printed in quantities comparable to modern sets, and the card's functional role in Vintage ensures that restricted status rather than outright banishment is the ceiling for the format's most powerful players. Urza's Destiny is not on the Reserved List, so there is a theoretical reprint risk, but Metalworker's ban-list position makes it an unlikely candidate for modern supplemental products. Supply is limited by the age of the set and the fact that existing copies have circulated in competitive play since 1999. Graded specimens command a meaningful premium over played condition.