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Painter's Servant

Shadowmoor #257 rare
Artifact Creature — Scarecrow |
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Painter's Servant

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Live Value $54.39
Foil Multiplier: 1.71x
Reprint Profile:
Printed 4 times ELEVATED

Reprinted 4x total, including once in the last 2 years.

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Card Value: $54.39
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rare
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EDHREC Rank
#7,121
Mana Cost
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Oracle Data

Card Type Artifact Creature — Scarecrow
Color Identity Colorless
Power / Toughness 1 / 3
🖋️ Curator's Notes
As this creature enters, choose a color.

All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are the chosen color in addition to their other colors.

"It gathers hues from the twilight mist so that its master can paint a better world."

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If something affected by Painter's Servant is normally colorless, it will simply be the new color. It won't be both the new color and colorless.

Each card becomes a new object as it changes zones, so this effect will apply to it from scratch in the new zone. Zone-change replacement abilities that care about the new color (like "[color] permanents enter tapped") won't work because those effects are applied as the card is entering its new zone. Zone-change triggered abilities that care about the new color (like "when a [color] permanent enters" or "when you cast a [color] spell") will work because those effects apply after the card is already in its new zone.

The effects of multiple Painter's Servants are cumulative.

This ability affects every card in every game zone, all tokens on the battlefield, and all spell copies on the stack, regardless of who controls or owns them.

While Painter's Servant is on the battlefield, an effect that changes an object's colors will overwrite Painter's Servant's effect. For example, casting Cerulean Wisps on a creature will turn it blue, regardless of the color chosen for Painter's Servant.

This ability doesn't overwrite any previous colors. Rather, it adds another color.

📜 Technical Attributes
Release Date: 2008-05-02
Set Name: Shadowmoor
Artist Reference: Mike Dringenberg
Border Profile: black
✨ Variants & Finishes
Available Finishes Standard • Traditional Foil
Promo Status NO
Edition Status Original Printing

Sanctioned Formats

standard not_legal
modern legal
legacy legal
commander legal
pioneer not_legal
pauper not_legal
vintage legal
brawl legal
explorer not_legal
penny legal
predh legal
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