Elemental Expressionist
Creature — Orc WizardPower and toughness4/4
Card text
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, choose target creature you control. Until end of turn, it gains "If this creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else" and "When this creature is put into exile, create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token." (Each instance of that ability triggers separately.)
Showing Strixhaven: School of Mages#181
Price
0.20 $
Foil 0.27 $
20 printings · up to 0.34 $
Daily estimate from Scryfall, not a shop quote.
Elemental Expressionist rulings
Elemental Expressionist has received an update to its Oracle text. Specifically, the second ability granted to the target creature doesn't care that the creature's controller is the one exiling it. If the creature is put into exile for any reason, that ability will trigger.
If you target a creature token with Elemental Expressionist's ability, and that token would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled (very briefly) before it ceases to exist, and you will still create an Elemental token.
If the magecraft ability triggers and resolves more than once with the same creature as the target, that creature will have multiple instances of each of the two triggered abilities the magecraft ability grants it. Each instance of the second ability will trigger separately, and you'll create an Elemental token for each of them. (Multiple instances of the first granted ability are redundant.)
Each magecraft ability has a different effect, although they all have the same trigger condition, whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell.
For example, if you control Archmage Emeritus and cast an instant or sorcery spell, Archmage Emeritus's magecraft ability will trigger and you will draw a card.
If an effect creates a copy of an instant or sorcery spell, this will also cause the magecraft ability to trigger.
If an effect creates multiple copies of an instant or sorcery spell, magecraft abilities trigger once for each copy created by the effect.
Some effects instruct you to copy an instant or sorcery card in a zone other than the stack. These copies do not cause magecraft abilities to trigger. However, most effects that do this also allow you to cast the copy, and casting the copy will cause magecraft abilities to trigger.
Elemental Expressionist format legality
Constructed
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- Future StandardNot legal
Eternal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- PauperNot legal
- PremodernNot legal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
Commander
- CommanderLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderNot legal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHNot legal
Arena & online
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
- GladiatorLegal
- BrawlLegal
- Standard BrawlNot legal
- Competitive BrawlLegal
Other
- TLRNot legal
All printings of Elemental Expressionist 20
Cards similar to Elemental Expressionist
Prismari PledgemageCreature — Orc Wizard
Zaffai, Thunder ConductorLegendary Creature — Human Shaman
Deekah, Fractal TheoristLegendary Creature — Human Wizard
Archmage EmeritusCreature — Human Wizard
Veyran, Voice of DualityLegendary Creature — Efreet Wizard
Feywild CaretakerCreature — Orc Wizard
Symmetry SageCreature — Human Wizard
Garrison ExcavatorCreature — Orc Sorcerer
Storm-Kiln ArtistCreature — Dwarf Shaman
Ashling, Flame DancerLegendary Creature — Elemental Shaman
Show 20 more similar cards
Tersa LightshatterLegendary Creature — Orc Wizard
Redoubled StormsingerCreature — Orc Wizard
Effortless MasterCreature — Orc Monk
Rootha, Mastering the MomentLegendary Creature — Orc Sorcerer
Cutthroat NegotiatorCreature — Orc Pirate
Strife Scholar // Awaken the Ages//
Creature — Orc Sorcerer // Sorcery
Prismari ApprenticeCreature — Human Shaman
Murmuring MysticCreature — Human Wizard
Hermes, Overseer of ElpisLegendary Creature — Elder Wizard
Talrand, Sky SummonerLegendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
Alandra, Sky DreamerLegendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
Havengul RunebinderCreature — Human Wizard
Master of WavesCreature — Merfolk Wizard
Whispering WizardCreature — Human Wizard
Cynette, Jelly DroverLegendary Creature — Human Wizard
Grandmother GobyLegendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
Wild-Magic SorcererCreature — Orc Shaman Sorcerer
VaultbreakerCreature — Orc Rogue
WarbringerCreature — Orc Berserker
Fathom Fleet SwordjackCreature — Orc Pirate