Ingenious Smith

Creature — Human Artificer

When this enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Whenever one or more artifacts enter the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on this. This ability only triggers once each turn.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (14)

skibulk on Nemesis Mask + Infiltration Lens

2 months ago

In the past, I have avoided using Psychosis Crawler since it bypasses interaction. It might be okay in this case. Your opponents are unlikely to have 10 creatures when you assemble the combo, so it'll usually take you a couple of attacks to knock everyone out.

Some things to consider: Urza's Saga, Trinket Mage, Renowned Weaponsmith, Grand Architect, Ornithopter of Paradise, Trophy Mage, Glint-Nest Crane, Ingenious Smith, Loyal Inventor, Body of Knowledge, Illusory Ambusher, The War Games, Combat Calligrapher, Kozilek's Command

greenweird on Retriever Repeater Stations

2 years ago

I made a similar deck to this named Lesser Masticore = Exodia!?! The inspiration is actually from elsewhere, but a lot of the cards are the same like Grinding Station, Ichor Wellspring and Myr Retriever, but my deck went all in on using Semblance Anvil as the cost reducer, and uses cards like Ancient Stirrings, Glint-Nest Crane and Ingenious Smith to get the Anvil or whatever piece of the combo lacking. I think it works really well! Feel free to check it out, I'm gonna goldfish this to see if there's anything I can implement to my deck.

Icbrgr on Pioneer Artifact Aggro: Where's Ensoul?

2 years ago

Ever since the beginning of Frontier/Pioneer Ensoul Artifact aggro has had a presence in the competitive meta.

Ive seen the deck evolve over time to be less {UR} and now be more {WU} for the sideboard answer cards/removal and Ingenious Smith/Michiko's Reign of Truth  ^Flip... which makes sense and all...but why has Ensoul Artifact fallen out of favor in these decks?

I always thought that the main appeal to the deck was making an Ornithopter a 5/5 flyer or slapping it onto Darksteel Citadel for 5/5 indestructible and just close out the game quickly with an obnoxious early beater that either was harder to remove or had evasion... combined with whatever artifact synergy the decks running.

Is Ensoul Artifact suffering the same fate as Kird Ape/Loam Lion/Wild Nacatl where although aggressively costed it just isnt enough anymore? I see some {UR} lists still running the card on some Youtube lists but they are starting to be over 6 months old now.

Disclaimer:

I personally still run Ensoul Artifact in a {UR} list featuring Patchwork Automaton with Reinforced Ronin/Network Disruptor... I feel like I have a moderate/acceptable success/winrate with the decklist; but admittedly I dont play Pioneer very seriously and just attend the LGS that hosts Pioneer ever once in awhile because its a bit of a drive to get there as opposed to other shops that play EDH/Modern far more conveniently for me.

Gidgetimer on Elesh Norn, Mom and ETB …

2 years ago

Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines has a replacement effect, so it replaces the trigger with two triggers. Ingenious Smith means that an artifact entering will only trigger the ability once per turn. Replacement effects that cause an additional instance of the trigger are not affected by the restriction.

I wouldn't say that one "overrides" the other, but yes you will end up putting two counters on the Ingenious Smith when the first artifact enters on a turn. A second artifact entering the same turn would never trigger Ingenious Smith, so you will not then get "an additional time" to have 1 trigger.

Chaospyke on Elesh Norn, Mom and ETB …

2 years ago

From the new set there are many cards that double effects; notably Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines. Does MOM overide abilities that have once per turn clauses Ingenious Smith

CheapnFast on Budget Modular

2 years ago

A copy or two of Power Depot would fit the synergies pretty well. Although it makes more sense in a two-colored deck, and it is a little awkward that it comes into play tapped, it is something to ensure you always hit with your Ingenious Smith ETB, and is a good sacrifice outlet for Throne of Geth.

Blobby_Bobby on FIGHT ME COWARD!

3 years ago

Preliminary thoughts: Cut Relic Seeker, Ingenious Smith, Foundry Inspector and/or Dwarfhold Champion and add 2-3 lands. I'll have a grip more suggestions to come.

itsbuzzi on Jeskai Ensoul (PNR)

3 years ago

Hey Alebasso, no bother at all! I only have a free account here so I can't have fancy updates showing cards in and out so I tried my best with my update section. Glad it got you to the correct answer because, yes, they aren't there because I never considered them for the deck.

I felt like Smith's etb ability is nice to get another body but growing was a bit slow, and you can't Ensoul them. My list goes to get damage in quick. If they searched for an enchantment and put the artifacts on the bottom instead of giving me a Gingerbrute and putting my enchantments on the bottom that would be nice. Plus with the addition of Hushbringer in the side running Smith is pretty bad because no etb trigger.

Patchwork was a brief thought but I played Hangarback Walker prior and felt that they are very similar and both was too slow as well. The ward ability is nice but can still be played around. Similar to Hangarback Walker where once destroyed he made at least one body, that was then shortly destroyed as well.

Not that either is a bad card I feel they don't fit with my deck. There are a few ways to build Ensoul. UR goes for more aggressive plays, UW is more artifact heavy, Jeskai is a bit of both. There may be other color combinations but I feel these are the most popular 3 and personally the best versions. I like Jeskai because you get a bit of both sides of the coin although playing it you need to figure out which side is better for what you have.

Both Ingenious Smith and Patchwork Automaton are decent cards but better in a more artifact heavy build like the UW version. I only have some of this artifact heavy aspect here but not enough to go "all in" on the specific archtype.

Hope that helped!