Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift
Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift: Creature - Lizard Wizard, Secrets of Strixhaven Commander. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {U}{R}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Creature - Lizard Wizard
- Colour identity
- Blue and red (UR)
- Power / toughness
- 2/2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
- Released
- 2026-04-24
- Collector number
- 48
- Artist
- April Prime
- Commander rank
- 12,539 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flying, Prepared
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About Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift
Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and red creature from Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC), a Commander product released in April 2026. It is collector number 48 in that set, with art by April Prime. It costs {U}{R} (one blue and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is blue and red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Secrets of Strixhaven Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.25 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Flying
When this creature enters and whenever one or more creature tokens you control deal combat damage to a player, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.25 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) #96 | Rare | 2026 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift, newest first.
- Preparation cards can only be cast with their base characteristics.
- If a prepare spell with one or more targets has no legal targets when it tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. Since the spell was cast, the associated permanent will still not be prepared.
- Being prepared isn't a copiable value. If a permanent becomes a copy of a prepared creature, it won't be prepared. That permanent will have the alternative characteristics, though, and some other effect could cause it to become prepared later.
- If the copied creature is a token, the token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token.
- If an effect causes a creature to become unprepared, a prepared creature stops being prepared and the associated copy of its prepare spell in exile ceases to exist. If it wasn't prepared at that time, nothing happens.
- The token created by Maestro's Gift copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that permanent is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that permanent is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on. If it is a Vehicle, it is not crewed.
- A preparation card is a creature card in every zone. For example, while it's in your graveyard, Emeritus of Ideation is a blue creature whose mana value is 5. It can't be the target of Zealous Lorecaster's triggered ability ("When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.").
- A creature without a prepare spell can't become prepared.
Similar cards
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Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.