Cryptic Trilobite
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Commander 2020C20 · #21
- Card type
- Creature — Trilobite
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.51 € · 1.70 $
- Mana value
- 0
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 0
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Add . Spend this mana only to activate abilities. , : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- 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
- Leesha Hannigan
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-04-17
Rulings
A mana cost of means that you pay twice X. If you want X to be 3, you pay to cast Cryptic Trilobite.
Activated abilities contain a colon, such as Cryptic Trilobite’s activated mana ability and its last activated ability. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities are activated abilities (such as cycling) and will have colons in their reminder text.
You can spend the two colorless mana produced by Cryptic Trilobite on two different activated abilities.