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Patron of the Arts

Creature — Dragon Noble

When this creature enters or dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
Price
$0.26
EDHREC rank
#4026
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Patron of the Arts card art
Patron of the Arts enters and immediately hands you a free Treasure, then keeps the faucet running every time another creature enters — it's a passive mana engine stapled to a body. The cost is that it does nothing without a steady stream of creatures, so it earns its slot only in decks that already flood the board; pair it with Chthonian Nightmare or a token-heavy commander like Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut and the Treasures compound fast.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ganax, Astral HunterAcolyte of Bahamut

Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut

37.8% of decks · synergy 0.37

Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut already produces a Treasure whenever a Dragon enters, and Patron of the Arts doubles down on that trigger — every Dragon drop becomes two Treasures, which funds the next Dragon ahead of schedule.

02
Delina, Wild Mage

Delina, Wild Mage

33.4% of decks · synergy 0.30

Delina, Wild Mage creates token copies of creatures on every attack, and each of those tokens entering the battlefield squeezes a Treasure out of Patron of the Arts, turning combat into a mana-generation loop.

03
The Jolly Balloon Man

The Jolly Balloon Man

30.9% of decks · synergy 0.29

The Jolly Balloon Man cares about cheap artifact tokens and keeps inflating their power, making the steady Treasure output from Patron of the Arts both fuel and payload in the same deck.

04
Herigast, Erupting Nullkite

Herigast, Erupting Nullkite

32.2% of decks · synergy 0.29

Herigast, Erupting Nullkite wants to cheat expensive creatures into play repeatedly, and Patron of the Arts converts each of those enters-the-battlefield events into Treasure, compressing the mana gap between big threats.

05
Lathliss, Dragon Queen

Lathliss, Dragon Queen

26.1% of decks · synergy 0.23

Lathliss, Dragon Queen generates a 5/5 Dragon token every time a non-token Dragon enters, which means Patron of the Arts is netting a Treasure off both the original Dragon and the free token — the payoff scales sharply with the Dragon count.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Patron of the Arts lives; the 100-card singleton format rewards cheap, persistent value engines, and a two-mana creature that produces Treasures on every creature entry slots cleanly into any red token or creature-storm strategy. Pauper is also worth a mention — at common, Patron of the Arts is legal there and the Treasure generation is genuinely powerful in a format where most mana acceleration is restricted, though it competes against faster synergy-dense commons. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but the card is nowhere near the power ceiling of those formats and will never see play there. Outside of Pauper and Commander, don't bother.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.26 bulk tier

At $0.26, Patron of the Arts is pure bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without thinking twice. Bulk rares with niche-but-real Commander applications tend to drift upward only if a specific deck archetype spikes in popularity, so don't expect price movement either way.

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