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{4}{U}{U}

Enchantment

ISDInnistrad#44rare

On Innistrad, death is just a career change.

Finishes
Nonfoil · Foil
Border
black
Frame
2003
Pull rate
about 1 per booster–1 in 1985
Illustrator
Anthony Palumbo
Found in
Innistrad MTGO Redemption · Innistrad MTGO Redemption Foil · 2 more
Printings1EDHREC rank#20,987
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
BrawlNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
GladiatorNot legal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
Future StandardNot legal
Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Create a token that's a copy of that card. Activate only as a sorcery.
Plays as:
Token Copy
Market · per finishspark updated 2h ago · prices as of 2026-08-30
Nonfoil-4.3%
$0.22
$0.09 low$0.06 gapTCGplayer
Foil-11.5%
$0.46
$0.24 low$0.12 gapTCGplayer
Cheapest playable copy$0.22· across 1 printing· you're viewing it

Rulings

4 · latest Sep 22, 2011
  • WotCSep 22, 2011

    Although you're paying the card's mana cost, you aren't casting that card. Abilities that reduce the cost to cast a creature spell won't apply, and additional costs to cast that creature can't be paid. Alternative costs that affect what it costs to cast a creature spell, such as evoke, can't.

  • WotCSep 22, 2011

    Any "enters" abilities of the creature will trigger when the token enters. Any "as [this creature] enters" or "[this creature] enters with" abilities of the creature will also work.

  • WotCSep 22, 2011

    If the exiled creature card has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be zero.

  • WotCSep 22, 2011

    If you exile a double-faced creature card this way, you'll pay the mana cost of the front face. The token will be a copy of the front face and it won't be able to transform.