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Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic
Price history
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic price history chart, default range 3 months. currently $0.27.
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic Price Summary
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic's current headline price is $0.27.
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic Printings & Prices
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic has 1 tracked printing across 1 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes, including borderless treatments.
All finishes
Sell Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic: Buylist Offers
| Buyer | Printing | Finish | Cash offer | Retail | Spread |
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| Card Kingdom | DRC #2 | Nonfoil | — | — | — |
| Card Kingdom | DRC #2 | Foil | — | — | — |
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic Rules Text & Legality
View on Scryfall ↗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.
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic is legal in Legacy and Commander, and not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern and Pauper.
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic Rulings
- Feb 7, 2025 Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They’re not associated with any specific permanents.
- Feb 7, 2025 Energy counters aren’t mana. They don’t go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana “of any type” can’t give you energy counters.
- Feb 7, 2025 If an effect says you get one or more {E}, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more {E}, you lose that many energy counters. You can’t pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.
- Feb 7, 2025 Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing them down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine.
- Feb 7, 2025 Some spells and abilities say that you “may pay” a certain amount of {E}, then describes an effect that happens “if you do.” In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability’s effect after you make your choice. If the payment is instead followed by the phrase “when you do” followed by an effect, then after you choose to pay {E}, a new triggered ability called a reflexive trigger is put on the stack, and you choose targets for the reflexive trigger (if the effect asks for targets). Players may respond as normal to this new triggered ability. Once that reflexive trigger resolves, the effect will finally occur.
Reprints & Reprint Risk
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic has been reprinted 2 times. The Aetherdrift Commander reprint cut the price 90% in 30 days.
| Set | Date | Rarity | Treatment | Price before | Day 1 | 30 days | 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRC #2 | 2025-02-14 | Mythic | Borderless | — | — | — | — |
| DRC #2 | 2025-02-14 | Mythic | Borderless | — | — | — | — |
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic in Commander
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic is the #12,643 most-played card on EDHREC, down 13 places over the last 30 days.
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic FAQ
How much is Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic worth?
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic is worth about $0.27 for its cheapest playable printing as of Sep 22, 2026.
Is Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic legal in Commander?
Yes — Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic is legal in Commander. It is also legal in Legacy.
Has Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic been reprinted?
Yes — Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic has been reprinted 2 times, with 1 printings tracked on The Index.
Why is Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic cheap?
Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic trades at about $0.27 — 2 reprints keep supply plentiful, and Commander demand is modest (#12,643 on EDHREC).