Faerie Artisans
Creature — Faerie Artificer
Flying
Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. Then exile all other tokens created with this creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- $1.27
- EDHREC rank
- #4828
Faerie Artisans enters the battlefield and immediately starts copying every nontoken creature your opponents play — a card-advantage engine that scales with the entire table. The cost is the exile-the-previous-copy rider, which Eye of Singularity exploits as a removal engine, and the four-mana price tag, which Ephara, God of the Polis happily pays in exchange for a guaranteed draw trigger each upkeep.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ephara, God of the Polis
Faerie Artisans enters on your turn and produces a new token on each opponent's turn, feeding Ephara, God of the Polis a draw trigger every upkeep with almost no additional effort.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
Each token Faerie Artisans creates is a fresh candidate for Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer to clone across your entire board — one valuable entering creature can become a field of identical threats the moment Brudiclad triggers.
Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
Faerie Artisans is itself a Faerie and produces Faerie tokens, so every copy trigger draws Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor a card and drains an opponent a life when the previous token dies.
Marneus Calgar
Every time Faerie Artisans exiles a prior token to create a new one, Marneus Calgar sees a nontoken creature enter and draws a card, turning opponents' creature-heavy turns into raw card advantage.
Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
The Faerie tokens Faerie Artisans generates are exactly the fuel Obyra, Dreaming Duelist needs — each new token pings an opponent, and the continuous stream across a full table adds up fast.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Faerie Artisans actually functions as designed: three opponents means three triggers per round instead of one, and the power disparity between tables makes copying other players' haymakers routine rather than occasional. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but unplayed — four mana for a conditional copy effect can't compete with the raw speed of those formats, and sorcery-speed creature deployment from opponents is rare enough to make the trigger unreliable. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer texture, so Faerie Artisans performs roughly the same role there at a slightly smaller table scale.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Eye of SingularityFaerie Artisans
Destroy each creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control; Lock
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Current price
$1.27 cheap tier
At $1.27, Faerie Artisans sits firmly in the cheap tier — strong enough to see play in thousands of Commander decks but underpriced relative to its impact, which makes it an easy inclusion to justify on any budget.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.