Printings
Paleontologist's Pick-Axe // Dinosaur Headdress
Card Information
Type (Front): Artifact — Equipment
Type (Back): Artifact — Equipment
Mana Cost (Front): 2
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
Rarity: Mythic
Collector Number: 16
Oracle Text
Paleontologist's Pick-Axe
Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card, then discard a card. Equip {1} Craft with one or more creatures {5} ({5}, Exile this artifact, Exile one or more creatures you control and/or creature cards from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
Dinosaur Headdress
When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. As this Equipment becomes attached to a creature, choose an exiled creature card used to craft this Equipment. Equipped creature is a copy of the last chosen card. Equip {2}
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 10, 2023
If the chosen card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
If a card that isn't a transforming double-faced card becomes a copy of a card with craft, it'll stay in exile if you activate the craft ability. It won't return to the battlefield.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
The equipped creature copies exactly what's printed on the exiled card and nothing else. It doesn't copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into exile.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
The back faces of some cards with craft refer to cards "used to craft" it. This refers to the cards exiled as part of the cost of the craft ability of the front face. Those cards are considered to be "used to craft" that permanent as long as they remain exiled and the permanent remains on the battlefield, even if the permanent's controller changes or some of its characteristics change (because of a copy effect, for example.)
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
You may exile tokens you control as part of the materials required. However, because they aren't cards and won't stay in exile, any abilities that refer to what you "used to craft" the back faces won't refer to anything.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
Each time Dinosaur Headdress becomes attached to a creature, you choose one of the exiled creature cards used to craft it. You may choose the same card you chose the last time you had to choose.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
If the materials required include multiple objects, you may exile some of them from among permanents you control and the rest from among cards in your graveyard. You don't have to choose all permanents or all cards from your graveyard.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.