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Animate Artifact
Oracle Text
Enchant artifact
As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Animate Artifact is a classic blue trick that rewards players who treat permanents as flexible resources rather than static objects. In a control or tempo shell, it turns an innocuous mana rock, utility artifact, or bulky relic into a real attacker or blocker, often letting you swing the board without spending a full card on a creature. Because the enchanted artifact’s power and toughness equal its mana value, the best targets are high-cost artifacts that were already doing work but now can also dominate combat; even a forgotten six-mana trinket becomes a sturdy threat. It pairs especially well with resilient artifacts that are hard to remove, or with artifacts that have strong enters-the-battlefield effects, since you get both value and a body. The aura is at its best when you can protect the target or immediately pressure life totals, making it a subtle but efficient way to convert mana investment into board presence.
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Character Background
Animate Artifact is a classic blue trick that rewards players who treat permanents as flexible resources rather than static objects. In a control or tempo shell, it turns an innocuous mana rock, utility artifact, or bulky relic into a real attacker or blocker, often letting you swing the board without spending a full card on a creature. Because the enchanted artifact’s power and toughness equal its mana value, the best targets are high-cost artifacts that were already doing work but now can also dominate combat; even a forgotten six-mana trinket becomes a sturdy threat. It pairs especially well with resilient artifacts that are hard to remove, or with artifacts that have strong enters-the-battlefield effects, since you get both value and a body. The aura is at its best when you can protect the target or immediately pressure life totals, making it a subtle but efficient way to convert mana investment into board presence.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-21 20:10:48 UTC