Chief of the Foundry is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
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Official card text
Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.
How it works : Chief of the Foundry
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to an artifact creature you control may become lethal if Chief of the Foundry leaves the battlefield during that turn.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Karn, Silver Golem + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Chief of the Foundry
Infinite colorless manaInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing another creature, adding
. - 2The creature dies, triggering Pitiless Plunderer, creating a Treasure token.
- 3Activate Karn by paying
, causing the Treasure to become a 1/1 artifact creature until end of turn. - 4Repeat.
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#2
Slagstone Refinery + March of the Machines + Sword of the Meek + Krark-Clan Ironworks
Infinite colorless manaInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing Sword of the Meek, adding .
- 2Sword of the Meek dies, triggering Slagstone Refinery, creating a tapped Powerstone token that enters the battlefield as a 1/1 creature due to March of the Machines and Chief of the Foundry.
- 3Sword of the Meek triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield, but not attaching itself to the Powerstone due to Sword of the Meek becoming a creature.
- 4Repeat.
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#3
Karn, Silver Golem + Pitiless Plunderer + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Chief of the Foundry
Infinite colorless manaInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing another creature, adding .
- 2The creature dies, triggering Pitiless Plunderer, creating a Treasure token.
- 3Activate Karn by paying , causing the Treasure to become a 1/1 artifact creature until end of turn.
- 4Repeat.
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#4
Slagstone Refinery + March of the Machines + Sword of the Meek + Ashnod's Altar
Infinite colorless manaInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Sword of the Meek, adding .
- 2Sword of the Meek dies, triggering Slagstone Refinery, creating a tapped Powerstone token that enters the battlefield as a 1/1 creature due to March of the Machines and Chief of the Foundry.
- 3Sword of the Meek triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield, but not attaching itself to the Powerstone due to Sword of the Meek becoming a creature.
- 4Repeat.
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#5
Karn, Silver Golem + Pitiless Plunderer + Phyrexian Altar + Chief of the Foundry
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing another creature, adding .
- 2The creature dies, triggering Pitiless Plunderer, creating a Treasure token.
- 3Activate Karn by paying , causing the Treasure to become a 1/1 artifact creature until end of turn.
- 4Repeat.
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Legal formats
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