Card

Painter's Servant

Artifact Creature — Scarecrow


As Painter's Servant enters the battlefield, choose a color.
All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are the chosen color in addition to their other colors.

This whimsical automaton helps create beautiful murals, then stands guard as they dry.


  Masterpiece Series: Kaladesh Inventions (MPS)
#20, Special

Illustrated by: Magali Villeneuve
Multiverse ID: 420607

Not Legal Alchemy BO1
Not Legal Standard BO1
Not Legal Brawl
Not Legal Explorer BO1
Not Legal Historic BO1
Not Legal Historic Brawl
Not Legal Pauper
Not Legal Pioneer
Not Legal Traditional Standard
Not Legal Timeless BO1
Not Legal Traditional Alchemy
Not Legal Traditional Explorer
Not Legal Traditional Historic
Not Legal Traditional Timeless

Rulings

  • 2008-05-01
    This ability doesn't overwrite any previous colors. Rather, it adds another color.
  • 2008-05-01
    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.
  • 2008-05-01
    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.
  • 2008-05-01
    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.
  • 2008-05-01
    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 the battlefield 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 the battlefield" or "when you cast a [color] spell") will work because those effects apply after the card is already in its new zone.
  • 2008-05-01
    The effects of multiple Painter's Servants are cumulative.
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