Painter's Servant
Artifact Creature — Scarecrow1/3$32.57
As this creature enters, choose a color. All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are the chosen color in addition to their other colors.
colorlessLegal in Commander
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Combos 19
Painter's Servant + Grindstone
- Infinite self-mill
- Infinite mill for target opponent
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
Any color chosen with Painter's Servant.
Steps
Activate Grindstone by paying {3} and tapping it, causing target player to mill two cards. Because both cards will share a color due to Painter's Servant, the process in step 1 repeats until the player has milled their entire library.
Painter's Servant + Llawan, Cephalid Empress
- Opponents can't cast creature spells
- Lock
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
"Blue" chosen with Painter's Servant.
Steps
Painter's Servant causes all creature spells to be blue in addition to their other colors. Because Llawan prevents your opponent from casting blue creature spells, they are unable to cast creature spells.
Painter's Servant + Teysa, Orzhov Scion
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Exile all creatures opponents control
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You control at least three additional creatures.
Steps
Activate Teysa by sacrificing three other creatures, targeting any creature. When the creatures die, Teysa triggers three times, creating three 1/1 Spirit creature tokens that are black due to Painter's Servant. Repeat. Resolve all Teysa abilities, exiling the targeted creature(s).
Painter's Servant + Wrath of Marit Lage
- Creatures do not untap
- Lock
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
"Red" chosen with Painter's Servant.
Steps
Painter's Servant causes all creatures to be red in addition to their other colors. Wrath of Marit Lage prevents red creatures from untapping during their controller's untap steps.
Painter's Servant + Light of Day
- Creatures can't attack
- Creatures can't block
- Lock
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
"Black" chosen with Painter's Servant.
Steps
Painter's Servant causes all creatures to be black. Because Light of Day prevents black creatures from attacking or blocking, no creature can attack or block.
Painter's Servant + Basking Broodscale + Ivy Lane Denizen
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature tokens
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
"Green" chosen with Painter's Servant. You have a way to put a +1/+1 counter on Basking Broodscale.
Steps
Put a +1/+1 counter on Basking Broodscale. Basking Broodscale triggers, creating a 0/1 Eldrazi Spawn creature token. When the Eldrazi Spawn enters the battlefield as a green creature due to Painter's Servant, Ivy Lane Denizen triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on Basking Broodscale. Repeat.
Painter's Servant + Elephant Grass + Solemnity
- You can't be attacked
- Lock
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
"Black" chosen with Painter's Servant.
Steps
Cast Elephant Grass by paying {G}. Elephant Grass prevents creatures from attacking you due to Painter's Servant making them all black. Solemnity prevents age counters from being placed on Elephant Grass.
Painter's Servant + Teferi's Moat + Archetype of Imagination
- You can't be attacked
- Lock
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
The same color chosen with Painter's Servant and Teferi's Moat.
Steps
Teferi's Moat prevents creatures of the chosen color without flying from attacking you. Because Painter's Servant makes all creatures the chosen color, and Archetype of Imaginaton causes all creatures your opponents control to lose flying, no creatures can attack you.
Painter's Servant + Spreading Plague + Eldrazi Monument
- Destroy all creatures opponents control whenever a creature enters the battlefield
- Lock
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
Any color chosen with Painter's Servant.
Steps
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, Spreading Plague triggers, destroying all creatures, as they all share a color due to Painter's Servant. Because Eldrazi Monument gives your creatures indestructible, only your opponents' creatures are destroyed.
Painter's Servant + Rowan, Scion of War + Ancestral Statue
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have lost at least 4 life this turn. Rowan does not have summoning sickness. "Black" or "Red" chosen with Painter's Servant.
Steps
Activate Rowan by tapping it, reducing the cost of all black and/or red spells you cast this turn by at least {4}. Cast Ancestral Statue by paying {0} due to Rowan's ability. When Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself to your hand from the battlefield. Repeat from step 2.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook. Only combos of 2 or 3 named cards are listed.
Best commanders
Commanders whose abilities work with this card and share its colors, from what the cards do.
- Reaper KingPainter's Servant is a Scarecrow, which Reaper King can use.