Painter's Servant
Artifact Creature β Scarecrow
Painter's Servant
Artifact Creature β Scarecrow
Card Text
As this creature enters, choose a color.
All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are the chosen color in addition to their other colors.
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 2
- Colors
- Colorless
- Color Identity
- Colorless
- Power / Toughness
- 1 / 3
- EDHREC Rank
- #7,200
Format Legalities
Market Prices
Prices from TCGPlayer and Cardmarket
Price History (30d)
All Printings (12)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Special Guests (SPG) | #147 | mythic | en | Ryan Riller | $35.10 | $36.99 |
| Judge Gift Cards 2023 (P23) | #1 | rare | en | Mike Dringenberg | β | $67.56 |
| Kaladesh Inventions (MPS) | #20 | special | en | Magali Villeneuve | β | $199.42 |
| Shadowmoor (SHM) | #257 | rare | en | Mike Dringenberg | $67.46 | $137.19 |
| Shadowmoor (SHM) | #257 | rare | de | Mike Dringenberg | β | β |
| Shadowmoor (SHM) | #257 | rare | es | Mike Dringenberg | β | β |
| Shadowmoor (SHM) | #257 | rare | fr | Mike Dringenberg | β | β |
| Shadowmoor (SHM) | #257 | rare | it | Mike Dringenberg | β | β |
| Shadowmoor (SHM) | #257 | rare | ja | Mike Dringenberg | β | β |
| Shadowmoor (SHM) | #257 | rare | pt | Mike Dringenberg | β | β |
| Shadowmoor (SHM) | #257 | rare | ru | Mike Dringenberg | β | β |
| Shadowmoor (SHM) | #257 | rare | zhs | Mike Dringenberg | β | β |
Official Rulings (6)
This ability affects every card in every game zone, all tokens on the battlefield, and all spell copies on the stack, regardless of who controls or owns them.
Each card becomes a new object as it changes zones, so this effect will apply to it from scratch in the new zone. Zone-change replacement abilities that care about the new color (like "[color] permanents enter tapped") won't work because those effects are applied as the card is entering its new zone. Zone-change triggered abilities that care about the new color (like "when a [color] permanent enters" or "when you cast a [color] spell") will work because those effects apply after the card is already in its new zone.
While Painter's Servant is on the battlefield, an effect that changes an object's colors will overwrite Painter's Servant's effect. For example, casting Cerulean Wisps on a creature will turn it blue, regardless of the color chosen for Painter's Servant.
This ability doesn't overwrite any previous colors. Rather, it adds another color.
If something affected by Painter's Servant is normally colorless, it will simply be the new color. It won't be both the new color and colorless.
The effects of multiple Painter's Servants are cumulative.