Dramatist's Puppet
Artifact Creature — Construct
When this creature enters, for each kind of counter on target permanent, put another counter of that kind on it or remove one from it.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #19957
Dramatist's Puppet reanimates any creature from any graveyard at the end of each combat — no mana cost, no targeting restriction, just a repeating engine stapled to your board. The catch is the five-mana entry and the dependency on Myojin of Cryptic Dreams or another divine counter source to trigger the ability at all.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dramatist's Puppet is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. The five-mana cost and conditional trigger make it too slow for any competitive Constructed format where games end before the engine online. In Commander, the repeating free reanimation is genuinely powerful in the right shell — particularly any deck generating extra combats or already running divine counter synergies — and the card asks almost nothing of you once it's on the table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Myojin of Cryptic DreamsDramatist's Puppet
Infinite copies of permanent spells you control; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite proliferate
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Myojin of Life's WebCloudstone CurioDramatist's Puppet
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite proliferate
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Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Dramatist's Puppet is pure bulk — pick it up in any common box without thinking twice. It's a niche card with a narrow trigger condition, so don't expect the price to move unless a popular commander pushes the synergy into the mainstream.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.