Clone Shell
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Scars of MirrodinSOM · #143
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.21 € · ★ 0.51 € · 0.12 $ · ★ 0.33 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
Imprint — When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. When this creature dies, turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield under your control.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Volkan Baǵa
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2010-10-01
Rulings
As Clone Shell's first ability resolves, you must exile one of the cards you look at, even if none of them is a creature card.
As Clone Shell's second ability resolves, if the exiled card is not a creature card, it simply remains in exile face up.
If you gain control of another player's Clone Shell, you can't look at the face-down exiled card. However, if Clone Shell dies, you turn that card face up and, if it's a creature card, you put it onto the battlefield under your control.
