Jade Idol
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Champions of KamigawaCHK · #256
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.09 € · ★ 0.45 € · 0.15 $ · ★ 0.24 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, this artifact becomes a 4/4 Spirit artifact creature until end of turn.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Ben Thompson
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2004-10-01
Flavour text
Before the Kami War, the shishi were symbolic guardians, protecting the shrines where they stood. But after the kami turned on the material world, shishi began pouncing from their perches to attack would-be supplicants.
Rulings
A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn’t matter how long the permanent has been a creature.