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Copy Artifact

Enchantment

You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield, except it's an enchantment in addition to its other types.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Masters Edition IV
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3955
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Copy Artifact card art
Copy Artifact enters as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield — your best rock, your opponent's Wurmcoil Engine, whatever wins the room — for two mana. Tameshi, Reality Architect pushes it furthest, bouncing and replaying it to clone a new target every turn cycle.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Tameshi, Reality Architect

Tameshi, Reality Architect

33.9% of decks · synergy 0.32

Tameshi, Reality Architect's activated ability returns Copy Artifact to hand for a land bounce, letting you redeploy it as a fresh copy of whatever artifact matters most in the current board state — effectively a repeatable clone engine stapled to your commander.

02
Urza, Lord High Artificer

Urza, Lord High Artificer

19.7% of decks · synergy 0.16

Every artifact Urza, Lord High Artificer controls taps for a colorless mana, so Copy Artifact isn't just doubling a utility piece — it's adding another mana source to the pile and pushing Urza's mana output ahead of curve.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Copy Artifact does its best work — artifact-heavy tables mean there's almost always a high-value target, and the singleton rule makes redundancy via clones genuinely useful rather than wasteful. In Legacy and Vintage, Copy Artifact sees fringe play in artifact combo shells where doubling a key piece at instant-adjacent speed matters, though those formats are narrow enough that most decks don't need it. It's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, or Standard, and Pauper cuts it by rarity, so the practical conversation starts and ends with eternal and Commander tables.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't available in the current feed for Copy Artifact, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. The card has been printed in limited quantities historically, which tends to keep its floor higher than its play rate might suggest — verify before assuming it's a cheap pickup.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.