Spitting Image

set	min	mtgo
-	NZ$ 0.85	0.02 tix

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Name	Spitting Image
Type	Sorcery
Description	Create a token that's a copy of target creature. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)
Flavor	Escupir es el saludo acostumbrado entre una criatura y su impostor mágico.
Artist	Jim Nelson
Set	Commander 2021 #229
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Spitting Image

Spitting Image, Sorcery, designed by Jim Nelson first released in Jul, 2008 in the set Eventide and was printed exactly in 5 different ways. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of NZ$ 0.85.

A deck that focuses on creature-based strategies, such as a Simic (Green/Blue) ramp or tempo deck, would benefit from including Spitting Image. While it provides a versatile way to create copies of powerful creatures, there are potentially better options like Clone or Clever Impersonator that offer more flexibility or utility. Spitting Image could still see play in certain metagames or strategies that prioritize creature duplication effects.

Rules

08/01/08

As the token is created, it checks the printed values of the creature it’s copying — or, if that creature is itself a token, the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield — as well as any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won’t copy counters on the creature, nor will it copy other effects that have changed the creature’s power, toughness, types, color, or so on.

08/01/08

Casting a card by using its retrace ability works just like casting any other spell, with two exceptions: You’re casting it from your graveyard rather than your hand, and you must discard a land card in addition to any other costs.

08/01/08

When a retrace card you cast from your graveyard resolves, fails to resolve, or is countered, it’s put back into your graveyard. You may use the retrace ability to cast it again.