Painter's Servant

Artifact Creature — Scarecrow

As Painter's Servant enters the battlefield, choose a color.

All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are the chosen color in addition to their other colors.

Discussion (51)

Nicklaffy2302 on Reaper King EDH

2 weeks ago

Also, Painter's Servant is now Legal. If you have the Servant, I recommend Grindstone aswell for the infinite mill.

LitchOubliette on Commander Staples Cube

2 months ago

Changelog (22/11/2020)

White

• +Abeyance
• +Academy Rector
• +Alseid of Life's Bounty
• +Eldrazi Displacer
• +Emeria's Call  ^Flip
• +Felidar Retreat
• +Generous Gift
• +Giver of Runes
• +Leonin Arbiter
• +Mentor of the Meek
• +Mother of Runes
• +Order of the Sacred Torch
• +Sanctum Prelate
• +Skyclave Apparition
• +Unexpectedly Absent

• +Whitemane Lion

• -Argivian Find

• -Banisher Priest
• -Benevolent Bodyguard
• -False Dawn
• -Flawless Maneuver
• -Kataki, War's Wage
• -Not Forgotten
• -Oblation
• -Oblivion Ring
• -Parallax Wave
• -Promise of Bunrei
• -Sublime Exhalation
• -Sun Titan
• -Suppression Field
• -Terminus
• -Treasure Hunter

Blue

• +Curiosity
• +Hullbreacher
• +Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• +Submerge
• +Teferi, Master of Time
• +Training Grounds

• +Unsubstantiate

• -Careful Study

• -Fact or Fiction
• -Into the Roil
• -Time Spiral
• -Pongify
• -Sleight of Hand
• -Reality Shift

Black

• +Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• +Big Game Hunter
• +Bitterblossom
• +Body Snatcher
• +Cabal Therapist
• +Corpse Dance
• +Feed the Swarm
• +Ophiomancer
• +Opposition Agent

• +Songs of the Damned

• -Dark Petition

• -Doom Whisperer
• -Exhume
• -Inquisition of Kozilek
• -Jet Medallion
• -Overeager Apprentice
• -Sickening Dreams
• -Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• -Skirge Familiar
• -Street Wraith

Red

• +Avacyn's Judgment
• +Blasphemous Act
• +By Force
• +Desperate Ritual
• +Goblin Cratermaker
• +Goblin Matron
• +Goblin Recruiter
• +Jeska's Will
• +Lightning Bolt
• +Possibility Storm
• +Ricochet Trap
• +Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• +Sneak Attack
• +Sweltering Suns
• +Thunderclap

• +Wheel of Misfortune

• -Anger of the Gods

• -Anje's Ravager
• -Balefire Dragon
• -Bogardan Hellkite
• -Comet Storm
• -Curse of Opulence
• -Daretti, Scrap Savant
• -Dire Fleet Daredevil
• -Dragon Mage
• -Generator Servant
• -Goblin Welder
• -Grapeshot
• -Hellkite Tyrant
• -Impact Tremors
• -Overmaster
• -Pyrokinesis

Green

• +Aluren
• +Hyrax Tower Scout
• +Protean Hulk

• +Shared Summons

• -Caustic Caterpillar

• -Concordant Crossroads
• -Fauna Shaman
• -Riftsweeper

Multicolored

• +Fiend Artisan
• +Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• +Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
• +Lurrus of the Dream-Den

• +Tinder Wall

• -Izzet Charm

• -Memory's Journey
• -Supreme Verdict
• -Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• -Teferi, Time Raveler

Colorless

• +Aether Vial
• +Altar of Dementia
• +Bag of Holding
• +Damping Sphere
• +Jeweled Lotus
• +Lithoform Engine
• +Mirage Mirror
• +Prophetic Prism
• +Smuggler's Copter
• +Tormod's Crypt

• +Uba Mask

• -Cloud Key

• -Crucible of Worlds
• -Krark-Clan Ironworks
• -Memory Jar
• -Metalworker
• -Mystic Forge
• -Painter's Servant
• -Pithing Needle
• -Relic of Progenitus
• -Strionic Resonator
• -Voltaic Key

Mana Fixing

• +Ash Barrens
• +Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• +Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• +Castle Locthwain
• +Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• +Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip
• +Darkwater Catacombs
• +Geier Reach Sanitarium
• +Glimmervoid
• +High Market
• +Mishra's Factory
• +Mossfire Valley
• +Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip
• +Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• +Shadowblood Ridge
• +Shivan Gorge
• +Skycloud Expanse
• +Sungrass Prairie
• +Volrath's Stronghold

• +War Room

• -Bojuka Bog

• -Canopy Vista
• -Cinder Glade
• -Clifftop Retreat
• -Dakmor Salvage
• -Dragonskull Summit
• -Drowned Catacomb
• -Glacial Fortress
• -Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• -Hashep Oasis
• -Hinterland Harbor
• -Isolated Chapel
• -Prairie Stream
• -Riptide Laboratory
• -Rootbound Crag
• -Smoldering Marsh
• -Sulfur Falls
• -Sunken Hollow
• -Waterlogged Grove
• -Woodland Cemetery

Peoni on Augustin STAX EDH

5 months ago

Your lack of proper wincon might net you a lot of hate at the table. You can Armageddon and Winter Orb all day, but if you don't have some method of breaking parity and killing the table, ultimately all you're doing is dragging out the game and not making much progress. Maybe that's your goal though.. to just make everyone suffer and regret playing the game, and if that's the case more power to you! Perhaps your friends deserve such a fate. :^) But I would recommend adding in some general wincons to actually end everyone's misery and let them know you came to win instead of just making them dread a 2 hour game where nobody wins lol.

Infinite mana combos like Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter and Grand Architect + Pili-Pala plus X cost targeted draw spells like Blue Sun's Zenith and Stroke of Genius make for either humorous yet fair ways of milling an opponent to death in one turn, or milling yourself with pieces like Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, Laboratory Maniac, and Thassa's Oracle to just straight up win the game. If you wanted to push your budget there's also the dirty Grindstone + Painter's Servant combo to, again, mill people to death. Then, after all that, you'd want to add in artifact tutors to fetch your filthy combo pieces and close the game out before people begin to complain about your gloriously oppressive board state. Cards like Fabricate, Tezzeret the Seeker, and Whir of Invention would do nicely. You could also run Muddle the Mixture as a flex card that could either be used to keep your opponents from getting to use their toys, or to again fetch your combo pieces i.e. Isochron, Pili-Pala, Thassa's Oracle, Painter's Servant if you wanted, etc. I'd be more than happy to help optimize this deck in budget if you wanted. :^) Just let me know.

Gidgetimer on None

5 months ago

Color identity only matters in EDH deck construction or if an effect specifically references "color identity". In all other cases color is used, color is any colored mana in the casting cost plus any color indicators (Dryad Arbor) or characteristic defining abilities (Transguild Courier) that define a cards color. Color can also be modified by static effects from permanents such as on Painter's Servant or Mycosynth Lattice.

casual_competitive on Bruvac's Millibuster

5 months ago

Grindstone + Painter's Servant inf mill, going infinite is lame but this combo kinda cool.

HydraOoze on Lazav Lord of Manipulation

5 months ago

Thanks for the comments VampDemigod. My primary way to win is to combo off using the Mindcrank + Duskmantle Guildmage combo or the Painter's Servant + Grindstone \ Sphinx's Tutelage combo. Otherwise I can just make lazav copy a fat creature and equip some swords and go for Voltron win.

enpc on Need Infinite Mana

6 months ago

You could also go with Painter's Servant + Phyrexian Altar + Training Grounds. All three are decent outside of the combo, but together you get 2 faeries for the cost of 1 coloured mana (either blue or black) which you can then generate from the Altar by sacing one of the faeries.

stupidhead on Ayli Lad Farm "cedh"

6 months ago

You could run Painter's Servant and Grindstone with this deck because they're both under 2 cmc