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Errant, Street Artist
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue · {U} · Blue commander
Flash
Defender, haste
{1}{U}, {T}: Copy target spell you control that wasn't cast. You may choose new targets for the copy.
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What Errant, Street Artist actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{1}{U}, {T}: Copy target spell you control that wasn't cast. You may choose new targets for the copy.
- Keyword · flashflash
- Keyword · defenderdefender
- Keyword · hastehaste
What an Errant, Street Artist deck needs
Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- spells that copy themselves or other spells — storm, replicate, casualty, copy effects (it copies a copy)
- haste and untap for the commander
The Errant, Street Artist deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 20× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
- 6× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Errant, Street Artist
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Brainstorm1 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
- Opt1 mana
- Ponder1 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Preordain1 mana
Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- Freed from the Real3 mana
- Pemmin's Aura3 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Umbral Mantle3 mana
- Unstoppable Plan3 mana
- Genji Glove5 mana
- Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
- Sword of the Paruns4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Icy Prison2 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
- Muddle the Mixture2 mana
- Personal Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
- Perplexing Test5 mana
- Cyclonic Rift2 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Combat Research1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Errant, Street Artist
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Errant, Street Artist is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Errant, Street Artist + Dramatic Reversal + Narset's Reversal341 decks
- Errant, Street Artist + Dramatic Reversal + Twincast167 decks
- Errant, Street Artist + Dramatic Reversal + Swarm Intelligence150 decks
- Errant, Street Artist + Reality Spasm + Twincast17 decks
- Errant, Street Artist + Dramatic Reversal + Chandra, Hope's Beacon12 decks
- Errant, Street Artist + Volo, Guide To Monsters + Intruder Alarm10 decks