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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
InnistradISD · #44
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.19 € · ★ 0.52 € · 0.21 $ · ★ 0.41 $
- Mana value
- 6
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
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.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- 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
- Anthony Palumbo
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2011-09-30
Flavour text
On Innistrad, death is just a career change.
Rulings
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.
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.
If the exiled creature card has in its mana cost, X is considered to be zero.
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.