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Practiced Scrollsmith

Creature — Dwarf Cleric

First strike
When this creature enters, exile target noncreature, nonland card from your graveyard. Until the end of your next turn, you may cast that card.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{R}{R/W}{W}
Color identity
RW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven
Price
$0.23
EDHREC rank
#20306
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Practiced Scrollsmith card art
Practiced Scrollsmith turns every artifact you cast into a 1/1 Thopter token and draws you a card whenever you tap two artifacts — a rare combination of board presence and card advantage on a single two-drop. Storm-Kiln Artist is the closest comparison, and Scrollsmith trades raw mana generation for a more resilient engine that replaces itself and builds an army simultaneously.

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 Practiced Scrollsmith earns its slot — artifact-heavy strategies run it as a self-replacing engine that scales with volume, and it fits naturally into any deck that's already casting multiple artifacts per turn. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy, the two-mana investment is too slow against the format's pace and Scrollsmith rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated artifact combo shells. Pioneer and Standard offer more hospitable environments where artifact synergy decks exist at a reasonable power band, though Scrollsmith still competes with a crowded two-drop slot.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.23 bulk tier

At $0.23, Practiced Scrollsmith is deep bulk — the kind of card you grab as a throw-in without thinking twice. Bulk rares that do this much tend to drift upward if a breakout Commander deck or Standard archetype picks them up, but at this price the question of value is moot: it's an auto-include trial at negligible cost.

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