Artificer's Assistant
Artificer's Assistant: Creature - Bird, Dominaria. Flying. Whenever you cast a historic spell, scry 1. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {U}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Creature - Bird
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Power / toughness
- 1/1
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Dominaria (DOM)
- Released
- 2018-04-27
- Collector number
- 44
- Artist
- Chris Seaman
- Commander rank
- 5,544 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Scry, Flying
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About Artificer's Assistant
Artificer's Assistant is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common blue creature from Dominaria (DOM), an expansion set released in April 2018. It is collector number 44 in that set, with art by Chris Seaman. It costs {U} (one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Dominaria (2018) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.29 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, scry 1. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic. To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.29 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Artificer's Assistant by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Artificer's Assistant
Artificer's Assistant has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #DOM-44 | Common | 2019 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Artificer's Assistant, newest first.
- A card, spell, or permanent is historic if it has the legendary supertype, the artifact card type, or the Saga subtype. Having two of those qualities doesn’t make an object more historic than another or provide an additional bonus-an object either is historic or it isn’t.
- Some abilities trigger “whenever you cast a historic spell.” Such an ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
- Lands are never cast, so abilities that trigger “whenever you cast a historic spell” won’t trigger if you play a legendary land. They also won’t trigger if a card on the battlefield transforms into a legendary land, as the Ixalan and Rivals of Ixalan double-faced cards do.
- An ability that triggers “whenever you cast a historic spell” doesn’t trigger if a historic card is put onto the battlefield without being cast.
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