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Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift

Creature — Lizard Wizard // Sorcery

Flying
When this creature enters and whenever one or more creature tokens you control deal combat damage to a player, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{U}{R}
Color identity
RU
Rarity
rare
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
Price
$0.43
EDHREC rank
#15227
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Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift card art
Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift puts a flying threat on the board and then, once flipped, generates a free spell-copy trigger that rewards instant and sorcery-heavy builds — the payoff is real, but it lives or dies by how often you're casting spells each turn. Molten-Core Maestro decks love the synergy, and Rootha, Mastering the Moment turns even a single Maestro's Gift activation into a cascade of value.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Rootha, Mastering the Moment

Rootha, Mastering the Moment

70.3% of decks · synergy 0.64

Rootha, Mastering the Moment appears in over 70% of sampled lists alongside Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift because Rootha's built-in copy ability stacks directly with Maestro's Gift — every spell you copy through Rootha is another trigger feeding the engine, compounding card advantage faster than most opponents can answer.

02
Muddle, the Ever-Changing

Muddle, the Ever-Changing

30.0% of decks · synergy 0.24

Muddle, the Ever-Changing rewards constantly shifting your hand and identity, and Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift fits that shell as a flexible threat that transforms into a spell-doubling advantage piece — roughly 30% of Muddle lists run it, which tracks for a card that slots cleanly into any Izzet-adjacent spellslinger strategy.

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 the primary home for Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift — the modal double-faced design rewards the longer game, and the spell-copy text on Maestro's Gift scales well in a 100-card format built around synergy stacking. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested; the rate is simply too slow for those formats, where two-mana creatures need to be format-warping to see play. Oathbreaker is the other competitive venue worth watching, since the smaller deck size and signature spell structure mean you can set up Maestro's Gift triggers more consistently than in Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

5 decks
Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's GiftMolten-Core MaestroEnergy Refractor

Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's GiftMolten-Core MaestroEnergy Refractor

Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite copies of a specific creature with haste; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count

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Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's GiftMana EchoesGemstone Array

Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's GiftMana EchoesGemstone Array

Infinite ETB; Infinite charge counters on a permanent; Infinite colored mana; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count

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0 decks
Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's GiftMana EchoesEnergy Refractor

Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's GiftMana EchoesEnergy Refractor

Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count

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Price Context

Current price

$0.43 bulk tier

At $0.43, Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift is firmly bulk — easy to slot into any spellslinger list without a second thought. Bulk rares with niche Commander relevance rarely spike unless a synergy commander pushes demand hard, so grab it now if the combo appeals to you and don't expect the price to move much either direction.

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