Transmute Artifact is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, search your library for an artifact card. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value, put it onto the battlefield. If it's greater, you may pay, where X is the difference. If you do, put it onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. Then shuffle.
How it works : Transmute Artifact
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
The one from the library enters when the spell is resolved, and this does not count as the casting of an artifact.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
You can't sacrifice more than one artifact to this spell.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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