Oracle text
This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
XBG, T, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
Mox strategy
Fiend Artisan excels as a graveyard-centric toolbox creature in Golgari (black/green) decks. Its +1/+1 boost per creature in your graveyard makes it scalable in attrition or reanimator strategies. The key strength is its activated ability: by sacrificing another creature and paying X in mana, it tutors and puts a creature with mana value X or less directly onto the battlefield, enabling efficient creature tutoring and combo enablers. Best used in decks with self-sacrifice outlets, large graveyards, and a variety of impactful creatures at different mana costs. Synergizes well with tokens for cheap sacrifices, reanimator or value creatures to fill the graveyard, and flicker loops to repeatedly reuse the activated ability. Supports mechanics like sacrifice synergy, graveyard recursion, and toolbox strategies. Ideal for midrange, value, and combo builds aiming to cheat big creatures or utility creatures into play.
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$4.66market (USD)
USD$4.66
USD Foil$5.93
EUR€5.87
EUR Foil€7.67
Format legality
- standard—
- pioneerLegal
- modernLegal
- legacyLegal
- vintageLegal
- commanderLegal
- pauper—
- brawlLegal
- historicLegal
- alchemy—
- oathbreakerLegal