Master Transmuter
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
, T, Return an artifact you control to its owner's hand: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Combos with Master Transmuter
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant Ugin's Nexus Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Clock of Omens Myr Battlesphere Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite tapped creature tokens
- Ugin's Nexus Mirrorworks Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Mishra, Eminent One Ugin's Nexus Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Sewer-veillance Cam Coveted Jewel Infinite
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Retreat to Coralhelm Seat of the Synod Infinite
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Ugin's Nexus Replication Specialist Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Corridor Monitor Panharmonicon Chromatic Orrery Infinite
- Infinite blinking of artifacts
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2020-08-07
Master Transmuter can be returned to its owner's hand to pay the cost of its activated ability.
- 2020-08-07
The artifact card you put onto the battlefield when the ability resolves may be the same card that you returned to your hand when you paid the cost. If so, it returns to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Master Transmuter, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aloy, Savior of Meridian | 1 | 0 | — |
| Breya, Etherium Shaper | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sai, Master Thopterist | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Blue 1 deck
- Simic 1 deck
- Four-Color (no Green) 1 deck
Every version of Master Transmuter
6 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Foundations Commander
- Normal
- —
- Foil
- —

- Normal
- $5.08

- Normal
- $5.63
- Foil
- $12.80

The List
- Normal
- $5.54

Archenemy
- Normal
- $5.53

Conflux
- Normal
- $6.32
- Foil
- $47.63
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Master Transmuter. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.