Transmute Artifact
- Mana cost
- {U}{U}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Antiquities #14 (uncommon)
- Price
- $431.38 USD
Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, search your library for an artifact card. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value, put it onto the battlefield. If it's greater, you may pay {X}, where X is the difference. If you do, put it onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. Then shuffle.
Transmute Artifact has 3 printings, first in Antiquities (1994). EDHREC ranks it #3,741 among Commander cards. It appears most in Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy decks (8,668 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Transmute Artifact most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy: 8,668 decks
- Urza, Lord High Artificer: 3,987 decks
- Tivit, Seller of Secrets: 2,639 decks
- Noctis, Prince of Lucis: 1,350 decks
- Arcum Dagsson: 914 decks
- Elsha of the Infinite: 810 decks
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch: 693 decks
- Tameshi, Reality Architect: 634 decks
Often played with Transmute Artifact
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Because the "search" requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don't have to find the card if you don't want to.
- : If the chosen artifact costs less than or the same as the sacrificed artifact, you simply put it onto the battlefield without paying any additional costs.
- : You can't sacrifice more than one artifact to this spell.
- : The one from the library enters when the spell is resolved, and this does not count as the casting of an artifact.
- : Additional mana spent to cover the differences in mana costs is not part of the mana cost of this spell. It is spent during spell resolution.
- : The sacrifice of an artifact is an effect of the spell, not a cost, which means it happens as the spell resolves. If Transmute Artifact is countered, you do not have to sacrifice an artifact.