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Truss, Chief Engineer

Truss, Chief Engineer Price

4 printings · 1 set · first printed 2022

Cheapest $0.16
Median $0.23
Highest $0.28
EDHREC Rank #30,831

Truss, Chief Engineer has been printed 4 times across 1 set, first in 2022. Right now the cheapest printing is Unfinity #272 at $0.16, while the most expensive is Unfinity #523 at $0.28. The median across 4 priced printings is $0.23. Reprint risk: LOW — Reprinted 4x historically, most recently in 2022 -- no dedicated reprint sets or recent activity.

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Every Truss, Chief Engineer Printing, Compared

Cheapest first · unpriced last
Printing Year Price Dealer Buys
Unfinity #272 (R) Cheapest 2022 $0.16 —
Unfinity #181 (R) 2022 $0.18 —
Unfinity #467 (R) Foil 2022 $0.27 —
Unfinity #523 (R) Foil 2022 $0.28 —

Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.

Oracle Text
Legendary Creature — Vedalken Rogue Employee
Whenever Truss, Chief Engineer enters or another creature dies, put a hack counter on Truss.

2, T, Remove X hack counters from Truss: Add or subtract X from a number or number word on target spell or permanent until end of turn. This effect can't reduce a number below 1 or a number word below one.
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Legal In

Not legal in any tracked constructed format.

Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 4 versions.

Official Judge Precedents

8 Precedents

You can change the numeral inside of a mana symbol, but you can’t modify the cost of a spell in time to pay less for it. It must already be on the stack to be a valid target for Truss’s ability.

Indefinite articles such as “a” in “draw a card” aren’t number words and can’t be modified.

You can’t use Truss’s last ability to change the 1 in Truss’s last ability to a 0. Nice try though.

You can’t change any instance of X.

Note that you’re changing numbers, not digits. For example, if you remove two hack counters from Truss, you could change 10 to 12 or 8. You couldn’t change it to 30.

You can change the number of dice rolled for an effect only if the original instruction included a number word to describe how many dice to roll. You can’t change the “a” in “roll a six-sided die,” but you could change the “two” in “roll two six-sided dice.”

Truss’s last ability affects a single number or number word on the spell or permanent. It can be anything—power, toughness, something in rules text, the name of a card (Four Wishes, anyone?), collector number, and so on. Mark says you can even change the copyright date, but don’t tell the lawyers.

You can change the number of sides on a die. If you don’t have any thirteen-sided dice handy, you can use other dice to simulate the rolls.