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Transmute Artifact
MTGO 16.77 tix

Transmute Artifact

{U}{U}

Sorcery

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.

Set
Masters Edition IV (ME4 #69)
Rarity
Rare
Mana value
2
Released
2011-01-10
Artist
Anson Maddocks
EDHREC rank
#3,646
Colour identity
{U}
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.96
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Format legality

Rulings

  • 2004-10-04

    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.

  • 2004-10-04

    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.

  • 2004-10-04

    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.

  • 2004-10-04

    The one from the library enters when the spell is resolved, and this does not count as the casting of an artifact.

  • 2004-10-04

    You can't sacrifice more than one artifact to this spell.

  • 2011-01-01

    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.

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