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Transmute Artifact

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Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Transmute Artifact

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Sorcery

Card Text:

Search through your library for one artifact and immediately place it into play; also, choose any artifact in play that you control and place it in its owner's graveyard. If the new artifact has a casting cost greater than that of the discarded one, you must pay the difference or Transmute Artifact fails and both artifacts are discarded. Shuffle your library after playing this card.

Expansion:

Antiquities

Rarity:

Uncommon

All Sets:

Artist:

Anson Maddocks

Language:

English

Rulings

10/4/2004	Additional mana spent to cover the differences in mana costs is not part of the mana cost of this spell. It is spent during spell resolution.
10/4/2004	The one from the library enters when the spell is resolved, and this does not count as the casting of an artifact.
10/4/2004	You can't sacrifice more than one artifact to this spell.
10/4/2004	If the chosen artifact costs less than or the same as the sacrificed artifact, you simply put it onto the battlefield without paying any additional costs.
10/4/2004	Because the "search" requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don't have to find the card if you don't want to.
1/1/2011	The sacrifice of an artifact is an effect of the spell, not a cost, which means it happens as the spell resolves. If Transmute Artifact is countered, you do not have to sacrifice an artifact.