Artistic Process
Sorcery
Choose one —
• Artistic Process deals 6 damage to target creature.
• Artistic Process deals 2 damage to each creature you don't control.
• Create a 3/3 blue and red Elemental creature token with flying. It gains haste until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #21442
Artistic Process draws you three cards for three mana — the catch is that you discard your hand first, making it a reset rather than pure advantage. Run it when your hand is empty or stocked with recastable threats; skip it when you need to protect a grip of interaction.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Artistic Process slots into wheels-matter builds and madness or discard-synergy shells where the discard clause is a feature, not a bug. Commanders like Nekusar, the Mindrazer and Brallin, Skyshark Rider turn every wheel effect into damage, and Artistic Process joins Windfall and Wheel of Fortune as a cheap third or fourth copy of that effect. Outside Commander, it's legal across Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Vintage, but those formats demand more precise card selection — a three-mana sorcery that cantrips conditionally rarely competes with format staples. Pauper is the one format where it can't appear at all.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Artistic Process is bulk — pick it up without thinking about cost. Bulk rares at this price point rarely appreciate unless a synergistic commander breaks out, so buy it to play it, not to hold it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.