Inspiring Statuary
Inspiring Statuary: Artifact, Murders at Karlov Manor Commander. Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Artifact
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)
- Released
- 2024-02-09
- Collector number
- 230
- Artist
- Kirsten Zirngibl
- Commander rank
- 973 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Inspiring Statuary
Inspiring Statuary is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact from Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC), a Commander product released in February 2024. It is collector number 230 in that set, with art by Kirsten Zirngibl. It costs {3} (three generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 8 sets, from Aether Revolt (2017) to Final Fantasy Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.43 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Ghirapur's most celebrated inventors have been immortalized in clockwork.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.43 (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 Inspiring Statuary 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 |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Inspiring Statuary
Inspiring Statuary has been printed in 8 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) #347 | Rare | 2025 |
| Commander Masters (CMM) #394 | Rare | 2023 |
| Commander Masters (CMM) #609 | Rare | 2023 |
| March of the Machine Commander (MOC) #361 | Rare | 2023 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #22 | Rare | 2022 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #85 | Rare | 2022 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #85z | Rare | 2022 |
| Historic Anthology 4 (HA4) #23 | Rare | 2021 |
| Aether Revolt (AER) #160 | Rare | 2017 |
| Aether Revolt Promos (PAER) #160s | Rare | 2017 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Inspiring Statuary, newest first.
- If you cast a nonartifact spell that requires you to sacrifice a permanent as an additional cost, you may tap that permanent (if it's an artifact) for the spell's improvise ability before you sacrifice it to pay that cost.
- Multiple instances of improvise are redundant.
Similar cards
Other artifact cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Inspiring Statuary is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.