Skilled Animator
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This printing
SetCMR
Collector #98
Released2020-11-20
Rarityuncommon
ArtistJason A. Engle
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Skilled Animator

UncommonColour IDMV 3
Creature — Human Artificer
When this creature enters, target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5 for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.
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Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
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Other printings
2 other English printingsEarliest 2018-07-13Newest 2022-12-02Cheapest priced $0.07 in J22
Rulings (6)
wotc10 Nov 2020
If an Equipment becomes an artifact creature, it usually can't be attached to another creature. If it was attached to a creature, it becomes unattached.
wotc10 Nov 2020
Skilled Animator doesn't remove any abilities the target artifact has.
wotc10 Nov 2020
Effects that modify a creature's power and/or toughness, such as the ones created by Titanic Growth or a +/1+1 counter, will apply to the creature no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for any counters that change its power and/or toughness and effects that switch power and toughness.
wotc10 Nov 2020
The resulting artifact creature will be able to attack on your turn if it's been under your control continuously since the turn began. That is, it doesn't matter how long it's been a creature, just how long it's been on the battlefield.
wotc10 Nov 2020
If the artifact was already a creature, its base power and toughness will each become 5. This overwrites any previous effects that set the creature's base power and toughness to specific values. Any power- or toughness-setting effects that start to apply after Skilled Animator's ability resolves will overwrite this effect.
wotc10 Nov 2020
The artifact retains any types, subtypes, or supertypes it has.