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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 tool that turns a dormant machine into a temporary body, fitting neatly into control or value shells that want to convert spare artifacts into surprise blockers, attackers, or sacrifice fodder. Its strength comes from flexibility: any artifact with a meaningful mana value becomes a creature sized to that cost, so a mana rock, a utility relic, or even a late-game bomb can suddenly pressure life totals or defend a planeswalker. The best deckbuilding tip is to pair it with cheap artifacts that naturally tap for mana or generate incidental advantage, since animating them after they’ve already paid you back minimizes the risk of turning off key acceleration. It also has combo potential with effects that care about artifacts being creatures, or with untap and buff effects that can exploit the new body. At four mana, it plays best when you can keep the board stable and choose the right moment to wake the artifact up.
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Character Background
Animate Artifact is a classic blue tool that turns a dormant machine into a temporary body, fitting neatly into control or value shells that want to convert spare artifacts into surprise blockers, attackers, or sacrifice fodder. Its strength comes from flexibility: any artifact with a meaningful mana value becomes a creature sized to that cost, so a mana rock, a utility relic, or even a late-game bomb can suddenly pressure life totals or defend a planeswalker. The best deckbuilding tip is to pair it with cheap artifacts that naturally tap for mana or generate incidental advantage, since animating them after they’ve already paid you back minimizes the risk of turning off key acceleration. It also has combo potential with effects that care about artifacts being creatures, or with untap and buff effects that can exploit the new body. At four mana, it plays best when you can keep the board stable and choose the right moment to wake the artifact up.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-21 20:10:44 UTC