Arcane Artisan
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Human Wizard
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 3
- Set
- Kaldheim Commander #36 (mythic)
- Price
- $0.35 USD
{2}{U}, {T}: Target player draws a card, then exiles a card from their hand. If a creature card is exiled this way, that player creates a token that's a copy of that card.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, exile all tokens created with it at the beginning of the next end step.
Arcane Artisan has 2 printings, first in Battlebond (2018). EDHREC ranks it #19,252 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ranar the Ever-Watchful decks (390 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. 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
Public decks that run Arcane Artisan
- Phantom Premonition - Kaldheim Commander, led by Ranar the Ever-Watchful
Commanders that run Arcane Artisan most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ranar the Ever-Watchful: 390 decks
- Echo, Perceptive Prodigy: 4 decks
- Evie Frye: 2 decks
Often played with Arcane Artisan
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If multiple Arcane Artisans are creating tokens, each will exile only the ones it created.
- : If a card in exile has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
- : If the card copied by the token had any “when [this permanent] enters the battlefield” abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it’s created. Similarly, any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities that the token has copied will also work.
- : If Arcane Artisan leaves the battlefield before its activated ability has resolved, the token that ability creates will still be exiled at the beginning of the next end step.
- : If any of those tokens have an ability that triggers at the beginning of the end step, that ability will trigger and resolve even if the token is exiled during the end step before that ability resolves.
- : If an effect such as that of Doubling Season causes Arcane Artisan’s first ability to create two tokens, its last ability will exile both of those tokens. However, if something becomes a copy of the token or creates a copy of that token later (such as Evil Twin or Cackling Counterpart), that copy won’t be exiled.