Transmute Artifact
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, search your library for an artifact card. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value, put it onto the battlefield. If it's greater, you may pay X, where X is the difference. If you do, put it onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. Then shuffle.
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2004-10-04
Because the "search" requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don't have to find the card if you don't want to.
- 2004-10-04
If the chosen artifact costs less than or the same as the sacrificed artifact, you simply put it onto the battlefield without paying any additional costs.
- 2004-10-04
You can't sacrifice more than one artifact to this spell.
- 2004-10-04
The one from the library enters when the spell is resolved, and this does not count as the casting of an artifact.
- 2004-10-04
Additional mana spent to cover the differences in mana costs is not part of the mana cost of this spell. It is spent during spell resolution.
- 2011-01-01
The sacrifice of an artifact is an effect of the spell, not a cost, which means it happens as the spell resolves. If Transmute Artifact is countered, you do not have to sacrifice an artifact.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Transmute Artifact, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noctis, Prince of Lucis | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Esper 1 deck
Every version of Transmute Artifact
1 printing, 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Antiquities
- Normal
- $413.55
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Transmute Artifact — a name search across every version, for 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.
