GruulLegendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary ArtifactBlaster, Combat DJ // Blaster, Morale Booster
Mana value5Rank#13,614
The Commander
More Than Meets the Eye 
(You may cast this card converted for .)
Other nontoken artifact creatures and Vehicles you control have modular 1. (They enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them. When they die, you may put their +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on Blaster, convert it.
Modular 3
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: Move X +1/+1 counters from Blaster onto another target artifact. That artifact gains haste until end of turn. If Blaster has no +1/+1 counters on it, convert it. Activate only as a sorcery.
Guide
Gameplan
Build a wide board of artifact creatures and Vehicles that all enter with extra +1/+1 counters thanks to modular 1, then dump counters around with Blaster's transform side to power up attackers or recur counters when things die. You flip back and forth between the creature side (anthem/modular granter) and the artifact side (counter-mover) to keep buffing and reusing counters, snowballing into a lethal artifact army.
Strengths
- Grants modular 1 to your whole artifact-creature/Vehicle squad, making every cheap robot bigger and turning deaths into counter recursion
- Counters never truly die—modular shuffles them onto new bodies for grindy, resilient value
- Lives in Gruul artifact territory with strong ramp (Treasures, Mana Rocks) and counter synergies
- Self-protecting: when emptied of counters it just flips to its indestructible-ish artifact form and keeps generating value
Weaknesses
- Flip mechanic and counter-moving are slow; the activated ability is sorcery-speed and taxes your mana
- Heavily reliant on a critical mass of cheap artifact creatures/Vehicles to matter—weak in a vacuum
- Vulnerable to board wipes since it goes wide, and to artifact-specific removal/sweepers
- No built-in evasion or card advantage engine; can stall against go-tall or control decks
Key Cards
- Hardened Scales — Multiplies every modular counter and every counter you move with Blaster, accelerating the whole engine.
- Doubling Season — Doubles entering modular counters and any counter placement, instantly doubling your board's stats.
- Steel Overseer — Pumps your entire artifact-creature team every turn, stacking on top of modular counters.
- Arcbound Ravager — Sacrifices artifacts for counters that recur via modular, an aristocrats-style counter battery.
- Throne of Geth — Proliferates to multiply all your +1/+1 counters across the board for cheap.
- Goblin Welder — Recurs and cheats out your big artifacts while feeding death triggers for modular counters.
Upgrade Path
Add counter multipliers (Hardened Scales, Doubling Season, Branching Evolution) and proliferate effects (Throne of Geth, Inspiring Call) to make every modular trigger explosive. Lean into cheap aggressive artifact creatures plus sac outlets like Arcbound Ravager and Ashnod's Altar to abuse counter recursion, and fast Gruul ramp (Sol Ring, Signets, Treasure makers) to flip Blaster ahead of curve. Top end with payoffs like Cathars' Crusade, Walking Ballista, and overrun effects (Craterhoof Behemoth) to convert your counter pile into a kill.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Swing wide with an army of counter-buffed artifact creatures and Vehicles for combat damage
- ▸Move a huge stack of counters onto one hasty artifact for a single overwhelming attack
- ▸Grind out the table via modular recursion and aristocrats sacrifice value until they have no answers
- ▸Combo with proliferate/counter-doublers (Hardened Scales + Arcbound Ravager loops) to generate lethal stats
Archetypes
- Artifact Aggro/+1+1 Counters — Modular 1 and the anthem turn a wide artifact-creature board into oversized, counter-fueled attackers.
- Aristocrats — Sacrificing artifact creatures recycles their counters via modular onto your best bodies, rewarding death loops.
- Voltron/Counters Snowball — Blaster can pile counters onto a single hasty artifact for an explosive lethal swing.
- Vehicles — Vehicles count for modular and the anthem, giving you durable, hard-to-block beaters.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GR), by popularity.
