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Mirror Match

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Mirror Match
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Rules Text

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step.For each creature attacking you or a planeswalker you control, create a token that's a copy of that creature and that's blocking that creature. Exile those tokens at end of combat.

Card Facts

Mana value
6
Colors
Color identity
EDHREC rank
#17,237
Rarity
Rare
Related cards
CopyTokenCopy

Legality

Commander

Legal

Duel Commander

Legal

Legacy

Legal

Oathbreaker

Legal

Vintage

Legal

Alchemy

Not legal

Brawl

Not legal

Competitive Brawl

Not legal

Future

Not legal

Gladiator

Not legal

Historic

Not legal

Modern

Not legal

Old School

Not legal

Pauper

Not legal

Pauper Commander

Not legal

Penny Dreadful

Not legal

Pioneer

Not legal

PreDH

Not legal

Premodern

Not legal

Standard

Not legal

Standard Brawl

Not legal

Timeless

Not legal

TLR

Not legal

Rulings

  1. Nov 4, 2015 · Wizards of the Coast

    A token created by Mirror Match will be blocking the creature it’s copying even if that creature can’t be blocked or has an ability that would stop the token creature from blocking it (such as menace or protection). This is also true even if the token creature has an ability that would stop it from being declared as a blocker.

  2. Nov 4, 2015 · Wizards of the Coast

    Although the tokens enter the battlefield blocking, they were never declared as blockers. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature blocks won’t trigger. If there are any costs to have a creature block, those costs won’t apply to the tokens.

  3. Nov 4, 2015 · Wizards of the Coast

    If the tokens aren’t creatures (perhaps because the attacking creature was an animated land), they’ll enter the battlefield but they won’t be blocking. Attacking creatures that weren’t otherwise blocked will remain unblocked.

  4. Nov 4, 2015 · Wizards of the Coast

    The delayed triggered ability that exiles the tokens will trigger at end of combat no matter what happens to the original creature.

  5. Nov 4, 2015 · Wizards of the Coast

    If Mirror Match creates more than one token for any given attacking creature (due to an effect such as the one Doubling Season creates), each of those tokens will enter the battlefield blocking the creature it’s a copy of. All of those tokens will be exiled by the delayed triggered ability.

  6. Nov 4, 2015 · Wizards of the Coast

    Each token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that permanent is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.

  7. Nov 4, 2015 · Wizards of the Coast

    If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.

  8. Nov 4, 2015 · Wizards of the Coast

    If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.

  9. Nov 4, 2015 · Wizards of the Coast

    If the copied creature is a token, the token created by Mirror Match copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put the token onto the battlefield.

  10. Nov 4, 2015 · Wizards of the Coast

    Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the copied creature will also work.

Printings

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2 printings
Legendary Cube Prize Pack
Legendary Cube Prize PackPZ1
Commander 2015
Commander 2015C15 · $0.35
Community

Decks using this card

5 public decks run Mirror Match.


MTGCommander

Maralen, Copy Copy Steal Steal

TheGentleman
TheGentleman9 months ago
1700
MTGCommanderB2

Swell the Host (Commander 2015 Preconstructed Deck)

WizardsOfTheCoast
WizardsOfTheCoast1 year ago
300