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Errant, Street Artist

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue

Flash
Defender, haste
{1}{U}, {T}: Copy target spell you control that wasn't cast. You may choose new targets for the copy.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Streets of New Capenna
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#8291
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Errant, Street Artist card art
Errant, Street Artist lets you copy any instant or sorcery you control for just one blue mana, which is a near-free rate for an effect that typically costs two or three mana on its own. The catch is the legendary clause — you can only copy legendary spells for free without a workaround — but in shells built around Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief or alongside Dramatic Reversal loops, that restriction disappears entirely.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief

Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief

28.9% of decks · synergy 0.28

Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief already copies spells targeting single creatures, so pairing her with Errant, Street Artist creates a recursive copy engine where a single cantrip or bounce spell spirals into multiple triggers — both commanders getting value from the same spell simultaneously.

02
Anhelo, the Painter

Anhelo, the Painter

20.3% of decks · synergy 0.19

Anhelo, the Painter taxes each casualty cost once per turn, so Errant, Street Artist offers a second free copy that sidesteps that limitation entirely, letting Anhelo decks effectively triple their most powerful instants and sorceries.

03
Kalamax, the Stormsire

Kalamax, the Stormsire

11.1% of decks · synergy 0.11

Kalamax, the Stormsire doubles the first instant each turn, and Errant, Street Artist stacks on top — a single instant becomes three copies when both triggers resolve, which turns modest cantrips into card-advantage engines and combat tricks into game-ending blowouts.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Errant, Street Artist is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it barely registers outside Commander. In Modern and Legacy, instant-speed copy effects at this cost have stiff competition from more consistent payoffs, and the legendary restriction creates real friction in non-singleton formats where you're likely to see multiple copies in hand. Commander is where Errant, Street Artist earns its slot: the singleton rule nullifies the legendary downside most of the time, and the abundance of powerful instants and sorceries in the format means a one-mana copy effect generates outsized value. Oathbreaker is a secondary home, where cheap spell-copy effects are similarly well-positioned.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Errant, Street Artist is firmly bulk — easy to acquire from any binder or bargain bin. The price reflects its narrow appeal outside Commander rather than its ceiling inside the format, so there's no meaningful financial risk in picking up copies now.

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