Forge Your Path with Ingenious Smith
Ingenious Smith brings reliable utility to any artifact-centric deck in Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. As a Human Artificer, this one-drop efficiently digs for key artifact pieces, revealing the top four cards of your library and allowing you to select an artifact to add to your hand. This ability smooths out your draws and accelerates your board development, critical in formats where assembling combos or synergistic equipment can turn the tide. The rest of the cards are shuffled back into your deck's bottom, keeping your draws unpredictable yet controlled.
Beyond its tutoring prowess, Ingenious Smith grows stronger alongside your artifact plays. Each time one or more artifacts enter the battlefield under your control, the Smith gains a +1/+1 counter, but only once per turn, rewarding steady artifact deployment without stacking abuse. It’s a natural fit for decks running cards like Goldspan Dragon or Mishra's Bauble, where artifact synergy fuels both offense and value. Ingenious Smith may start small but quickly becomes a resilient threat, forging an essential role in your artifact strategy.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost: {1}{W}
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Card Type: Creature
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Subtypes: Human Artificer
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed): When Ingenious Smith enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Whenever one or more artifacts enter the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Ingenious Smith. This ability triggers only once each turn.
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Power / Toughness: 1/1
