Painter's Servant

Kaladesh Inventions (MPS) #20 · Special · Artifact Creature — Scarecrow

Mana cost: {2}

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.

This whimsical automaton helps create beautiful murals, then stands guard as they dry.

Power/toughness 1/3 · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve · Released September 30, 2016

Prices

Printings

  1. Special Guests #147 (SPG) · Mythic · 2026 · $33.51 USD
  2. Judge Gift Cards 2023 #1 (P23) · Rare · 2023 · $63.00 USD foil
  3. Kaladesh Inventions #20 (this printing) · Special · 2016 · $221.67 USD foil
  4. Shadowmoor #257 (SHM) · Rare · 2008 · $51.83 USD

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2026-09-01 · wotc — This ability doesn't overwrite any previous colors. Rather, it adds another color.
  2. 2026-09-01 · wotc — 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.
  3. 2026-09-01 · wotc — 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.
  4. 2026-09-01 · wotc — 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.
  5. 2026-09-01 · wotc — The effects of multiple Painter's Servants are cumulative.
  6. 2026-09-01 · wotc — Each card becomes a new object as it changes zones, so this effect will apply to it from scratch in the new zone. However, replacement effects that care about the color of permanents entering the battlefield (like "[color] permanents enter tapped") will apply to permanents entering if that color was chosen for Painter's Servant because Painter's Servant's effect applies simultaneously with those permanents entering the battlefield. Zone-change triggered abilities that care about the new color (like "whenever a [color] permanent enters" or "whenever you cast a [color] spell") will also work.

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