Flowstone Sculpture
Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
, Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature or this creature gains flying, first strike, or trample. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Vintage Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #29188
Flowstone Sculpture enters as a 0/0 artifact creature and grows as large as you're willing to pay — pump mana into it and it becomes whatever size the moment demands. The catch is the activation cost scales with the counters already on it, so turning it into a genuine finisher requires a serious mana commitment every turn.
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 |
Flowstone Sculpture is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, it occasionally shows up in artifact-creature builds or decks that want a colorless threat that scales with available mana, but the activation cost makes it inefficient compared to creatures that just come into play large. Legacy and Vintage have access to every efficient threat ever printed, which leaves Flowstone Sculpture with no meaningful role. Oathbreaker is the one context where a colorless, format-legal threat with no deck-building constraints could theoretically earn a slot, but even there better options exist.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Flowstone Sculpture isn't currently available, which reflects how little demand the card sees — it's the kind of obscure older artifact that shows up in bulk bins rather than wishlists. If you need a copy, expect to find it cheaply; it's not a card anyone is competing to own.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.