#painter's servant

[underworlddreams]

Painter's Servant

Artist: Magali Villeneuve Set: Kaladesh Inventions

This whimsical automaton helps create beautiful murals, then stands guard as they dry.

[mtg-brokentoken]

Painter’s Servant Junior/Lite/decaf

Shifting Sky is a less-broken (and not banned in Commander) version of Painter’s Servant. Where the Painter’s Servant affects all cards, spells, and permanents, Shifting Sky only affects non-land permanents. Common Cause works well for this, unless a land is animated, since it may then still be colorless.

Or, you could choose a color that you don’t have in your deck, so all of your non-land permanents gain that color. You know, if you want your creatures to be multicolor for some reason. Or maybe you just want them to be immune to Fear (by making them black) or Intimidate (since all creatures share a color).  Ignore this bit, as it makes all permanents one color, but not in addition to their current. Rest of the article is legit though.

Or maybe you’re using it a bit more offensively, to make all permanents a certain color that your deck is built to have protection from. Your creatures have protection from Black, and since you chose to make everything Black your opponent can’t block your creatures, and when they attack you can block without your creatures taking damage.

Or maybe you just think that having something in common is a good way to find peace.

[cardboard-crack]

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Painter's Servant

It gathers hues from the twilight mist so that its master can paint a better world.

Artist: Mike Dringenberg TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[rokharmtg]

First post, pulled a masterpiece from a Chandra Planeswalker deck, my lgs was out of regular boosters and I figured I'd may as well get one, I'd give the deck to my girlfriend's little bros and I'd open the boosters, win win right? Bam, masterpiece. Granted I didn't really need it for anything so I just went ahead and sold it and added more to my store credit. Either way not bad for one of those "crappy Planeswalker decks no one should buy".

[flavoracle]

YOU ARTISTS THERE WHO HAVE SUCH FLAIR, COME SEE A THING I'D LIKE TO SHARE! WHEN UNINVITED CRITICS FLY, AND RUDELY THEY COME DROPPING BY, DO YOU DETEST THOSE NESTING PESTS? DOES FOWL GRAFFITI SPOIL YOUR REST? COME SPARE A GAZE AND I'LL AMAZE WITH SUCH A SIGHT THAT WILL DELIGHT! A SCARECROW POLISHED WITH A GLEAM, A HELPER FROM YOUR FONDEST DREAM! WATCH IT SPRAY AWAY YOUR BLUES WITH HUES! YOU'LL HAVE NO WORDS NOR PESKY BIRDS! WITH WHITES SO BRIGHT AND GREENS SO CLEAN, THIS ONE MACHINE WILL CHANGE YOUR SCENE! OH CROW WILL KNOW TO FLY AWAY WHEN IT SEES ITS RAINBOW SPRAY! LET LOOSE ON GOOSE AND PIGEON BLUDGEON, EACH THING ON WINGS SHALL FEAR ITS GEARS. EVEN THE TURTLE DOVE DOVE FOR COVER (LEST IT BE BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER) THE PAINTER'S WORK NEED NEVER CEASE, THIS SERVANT GIVES ITS MASTER PEACE!!

[magicjudge]

If i have an Ugin out and play a Painter's Servant naming blue, then use Ugin's -X ability, can he exile himself?

Yes, if X is 8 or more and Ugin has some loyalty left after you activate the ability. If Ugin has exactly 8 loyalty before you activate the second ability for X=8, then he’ll go to the graveyard from state-based actions before the ability has a chance to resolve.

[magicjudge]

I'm terribly sorry, but how is your Imperial Painter Deck working? I'm not as experienced in Meta-Decks and Combobuilding, but you seem to use Painters Servant to make everything one colour and then?

Right, so the basic combo is this:

Painter’s Servant makes all cards in all in-game zones the chosen color in addition to their other colors. This means that when you start to resolve Grindstone’s ability, the set of two cards from your opponent’s library will share a color so you mill the next two cards, which also share a color, etc., until your opponent’s library is empty. They then lose on their next draw step when they can’t draw a card.

In Painter decks, you’ll typically paint everything blue so that you can then use Pyroblast and Red Elemental Blast as a one mana Vindicate or Counterspell. 

However, if you don’t have these cards in hand when the Painter enters the battlefield and you’re playing against a player who is playing blue, you probably want to name a different color so you don’t give your opponent free fuel for their Force of Wills. I usually choose white, green or black in these cases since they’re fairly neutral choices. Alternately, you can name red if you’ve sided in Pyrokinesis, and this will let you exile any card for it.