Magic: The Gathering

Machinesmith Automaton

Marvel Super Heroes 144 • common

Set: Marvel Super Heroes
Collector number: 144
Rarity: Common
Mana cost: 2 generic mana red mana
Type: Creature
Colors: Red
Artist: Wero Gallo
Market price: $0.13

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$0.13market price via TCGplayer · Aug 15, 2026$0.10 – $0.56 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

The Machinesmith Automaton represents a piece of 1990s trading card history from the Marvel Super Heroes set, showcasing the character’s origins as a robotic vessel controlled by the villain Karl Kort. While common in rarity, this card is a notable example of Wero Gallo’s illustration style and serves as a classic inclusion for fans of Marvel-themed card games from that era.

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What it does

Trample

Whenever another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"Every day, I find new ways to improve upon my designs. This is the inherent superiority of metal over flesh and blood."— Machinesmith, Samuel Saxon

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Provenance

Where it came from

The Machinesmith Automaton was released as part of the Marvel Super Heroes collectible card game, which debuted in the mid-1990s to capitalize on the immense popularity of Marvel Comics characters. The card reflects the broader design philosophy of the era, which favored high-energy, illustrative comic book art to engage fans of the source material while building out a strategic tabletop gameplay system.

The illustration for this card was provided by Wero Gallo, an artist who contributed to several trading card sets during the period. Gallo's design for the Machinesmith Automaton emphasizes the character's cybernetic, mechanical nature, capturing the aesthetic of Marvel's technological villains through a gritty, detailed lens that was intended to translate the tension of a comic book fight into a static, collectible format.

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