Master's Guide-Mural // Master's Manufactory
Artifact // Artifact
When this artifact enters, create a 4/4 white and blue Golem artifact creature token.
Craft with artifact 
(, Exile this artifact, Exile another artifact you control or an artifact card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #12910
Master's Guide-Mural // Master's Manufactory enters as a land that taps for colorless, then transforms into a token factory once you've met the artifact threshold — the payoff is real, but getting there requires meaningful artifact investment. Outside of dedicated artifact builds, the front face is too slow and the back face arrives too late to matter; in the right shell, it's a free engine stapled to a land.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tetzin, Gnome Champion
Tetzin, Gnome Champion runs Master's Guide-Mural // Master's Manufactory in over 76% of decks because the artifact-count requirement is trivially met while Tetzin is doing what it already wants to do — the Manufactory side then provides a continuous stream of tokens to sacrifice, recur, or fling at opponents.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Master's Guide-Mural // Master's Manufactory is legal across every major constructed format but sees virtually no play outside Commander — the front face as a tapped colorless land is a liability in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where land slots are too precious to spend on a conditional transformer. In Standard it's a narrow build-around at best, playable only in aggressive artifact lists that can flip it before the game is decided. Commander is where it actually lives: the 100-card format gives artifact decks the density to hit the threshold consistently, and a land that becomes a token engine in the late game is exactly the kind of free value those strategies want.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Master's Guide-Mural // Master's Manufactory is deep bulk — easy to acquire as a throw-in or cheap pickup for any artifact Commander build. Bulk rares with narrow homes rarely climb unless a new commander pushes them into demand, so treat this as a utility inclusion, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Tetzin, Gnome Champion
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.