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Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette

Creature — Orc Sorcerer // Sorcery

Flying
This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#21091
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Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette card art
Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette puts a mana-generating artifact on the battlefield that scales with your color diversity, and the creature side enables repeatable flicker loops with Displacer Kitten to generate mana every time it re-enters. The cost is real — a two-card dependency and modest baseline output — but in the right shell this is an engine piece, not filler.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette actually belongs — four-color and five-color commanders turn Striking Palette into a multi-mana rock immediately, and the flicker synergies that define casual-to-midpower EDH tables give the creature side repeated relevance. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's strictly too slow and too narrow; the mana generation requires a board state that competitive decks can't afford to set up. Standard legality keeps it accessible for Limited speculation, but constructed Standard has no home for it. Legacy and Vintage ignore it entirely.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette is bulk in every sense — easy to acquire, low barrier to try. Bulk dual-faced cards with niche combo upside rarely spike unless a specific commander or synergy goes viral, so don't expect movement, but at this price the question is never cost.

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