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Liquimetal Coating

Artifact

{T}: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander Anthology Volume II
Price
$1.36
EDHREC rank
#3722
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Liquimetal Coating card art
Liquimetal Coating turns any permanent into an artifact on demand, which sounds narrow until you realize how many effects in Commander care about artifacts — steal effects, sacrifice payoffs, and destruction spells that only hit artifacts all suddenly have no restrictions. At two mana to cast and zero to activate, the cost is nearly nothing for what it unlocks; Magda, Brazen Outlaw and Memnarch are the marquee abusers, but any deck with repeated artifact synergies wants a look.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Memnarch

Memnarch

61.7% of decks · synergy 0.61

Memnarch's steal ability only hits artifacts, so Liquimetal Coating effectively removes the type restriction — activate it on any permanent at instant speed, then spend four blue mana to take it permanently.

02
Horobi, Death's Wail

Horobi, Death's Wail

57.4% of decks · synergy 0.57

Horobi, Death's Wail kills any creature that becomes the target of an ability, so Liquimetal Coating lets you point the free-activation at an artifact-land or enchantment-creature to generate kills beyond the usual targeting suite.

03
Kibo, Uktabi Prince

Kibo, Uktabi Prince

55.9% of decks · synergy 0.53

Kibo, Uktabi Prince puts Banana tokens onto opponents' artifacts and cares deeply about artifact density on the battlefield, so Liquimetal Coating inflates that count at will and turns any problem permanent into Banana fodder.

04
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

52.7% of decks · synergy 0.52

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch scores her scry-and-life trigger by sacrificing one each of an artifact, creature, and enchantment — Liquimetal Coating means any permanent can fill the artifact slot, making the sacrifice condition trivial to satisfy every turn.

05
Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter

Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter

42.1% of decks · synergy 0.41

Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter turns sacrificed artifacts into Treasure or 1/1 tokens, so Liquimetal Coating converts any creature or land into on-demand sacrifice fodder that feeds the engine without consuming real artifacts.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Liquimetal Coating does its real work — the format's singleton rule and multiplayer threats mean the ability to retool any permanent as an artifact on demand is consistently relevant, and the combo ceilings with commanders like Memnarch are high enough to anchor entire strategies. In Legacy and Vintage, Liquimetal Coating has seen fringe play in artifact-based shells and alongside Karn, the Great Creator to lock opponents out of activated abilities on their lands, but it competes with faster, more redundant options and rarely earns a main-deck slot. Modern has similar dynamics; the card is legal but rarely played, since most artifact synergy decks there run purpose-built pieces rather than a conversion effect. Pioneer and Standard players don't have access to it, and it's not legal in Pauper, so Commander and Oathbreaker are its real homes.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.36 cheap tier

At $1.36, Liquimetal Coating sits at the cheap end of the spectrum for a card that anchors multiple combo-commander strategies. That price is unlikely to collapse — the demand from Memnarch and Horobi, Death's Wail decks alone keeps it from hitting bulk, and it has no widely played reprint that floods supply.

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