Ingenious Smith

Ingenious Smith: Creature - Human Artificer, Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost: {1}{W}
Mana value: 2
Type: Creature - Human Artificer
Colour identity: White (W)
Power / toughness: 1/1
Rarity: Uncommon
Set: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR)
Released: 2021-07-23
Collector number: 21
Artist: Nicholas Elias
Commander rank: 13,345 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Ingenious Smith

Ingenious Smith is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon white creature from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR), an expansion set released in July 2021. It is collector number 21 in that set, with art by Nicholas Elias. It costs {1}{W} (one generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (2021) to Marvel Super Heroes Commander (2026). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.23 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Whenever one or more artifacts you control enter, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.23 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Ingenious Smith by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

Pioneer	Legal
Modern	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Vintage	Legal
Commander	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Historic	Legal
Timeless	Legal
Gladiator	Legal

Other printings of Ingenious Smith

Ingenious Smith has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

Printing	Rarity	Year
Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) #135	Uncommon	2026

Similar cards

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In these precons

Ingenious Smith is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.