Jackal, Genius Geneticist
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Marvel's Spider-Man PromosPSPM · #131s
- Card type
- Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Villain
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- ★ 0.90 € · ★ 1.30 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 1
- Colour
- Blue Green
Card text
Trample Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value equal to Jackal's power, copy that spell, except the copy isn't legendary. Then put a +1/+1 counter on Jackal. (The copy becomes a token.)
Format legality
- AlchemyLegal
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Pavel Kolomeyets
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2025-09-26
Flavour text
For Professor Miles Warren, all any problem needs is a lot of clones and not a lot of ethics.
Rulings
If a spell has in its mana cost, use the value chosen for that X to determine the mana value of that spell.
If the spell that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy will have the same value of X.
