Being able to copy planeswalkers and creatures makes this card incredibly covetable by all sorts of players. Turning our gaze to a more recently released card in Spark Double, it sees lots of play in all sorts of decks in EDH, and it's starting to climb in its price point as well. Hopefully we will see it soon, but this would have been a great spot to put it. Its price is now a little more than the average player would like to pay, and even though it's on " The List" it is still rare and hard to come by. That's far too long to go without a reprint for a card that fun. Doubling Cube is a Commander card through and through and - excluding The List - hasn't been printed since. There really is no excuse for the other two to put it quite plainly. We've had two Double Masters sets now and there hasn't been a reprint of Doubling Cube, Spark Double or heck, even Double Vision (yes I know that one got printed in the New Capenna Commander decks, but still). This is called the “legend rule.As Foretold | Illustrated by Tommy Arnold ** This works because the legend rule care about things with the same name:ħ04.5j If a player controls two or more legendary permanents with the same name, that player chooses one of them, and the rest are put into their owners’ graveyards. * You can use any old Clone on a legendary creature if you need it to exist quite briefly (such as to get the enter the battlefield trigger on Archangel Avacyn), but you will have to lose all but one of them the next time state based actions are checked. I know you said you don't want to use Mirror Gallery, but I'm including it for completeness. Currently this is Mirror Gallery and Sakashima of a Thousand Faces (and Brothers Yamazaki, which creates an exception only for itself). ![]() Things that ignore the legend rule: o:"legend rule". ![]() Currently, this is Sakashima the Impostor, Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, and Lazav, the Multifarious (noting that the later two will require the creature you are copying to go the graveyard and back in the process). Things that clone a creature with a different name**: o:copy o:"its name". Currently, this is Spark Double, Helm of the Host, and Double Major. Things that make non-legendary copies of a creature: o:"isn't legendary". That said, there are three general mechanics that will let you have multiple copies of a legendary creature on the battlefield at the same time*: It's much cheaper to copy just the ability you care about, such as with one of the following: Strionic Resonator, Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice, Illusionist's Bracers, or Rings of Brighthearth (Strionic Resonator is the only one of these that will work for Geist of Saint Taft, as Geist is not an artifact, and its ability is a triggered ability and not an activated ability). If what you care about is cost, you shouldn't be trying to copy the whole creature. Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty added Mirror Box which is a strictly better version of Mirror Gallery Then, when another copy of the legendary enters the battlefield on your side, you get to keep it. Mutate your first legendary creature, and be sure to put the mutation on top. If your group allows Un-sets, there is also Rules Lawyer, which makes state-based actions not apply to you and your creatures, which disables the legend rule check.Īny creature with Mutate and a second copy of the (non-human) legendary creature will allow you to avoid the Legend rule. It costs 4 mana to cast and 5 mana to equip, but it lets you get any number of copies with only 1 reusable card invested. Helm of the Host creates non-legendary token copies of the equipped creature. Lazav, Dimir Mastermind only copies creatures that go to your opponent's graveyard, so the creature you want to copy has to go to your opponent's graveyard somehow, which requires either elaborate setup, or that your opponent also happens to play Geist.īoth creatures restrict you to one additional Geist each, because the legend rule still applies to Lazav and Sakashima, respectively. This Gatherer search include all sanctioned-legal cards that can copy a legendary creature to keep (plus a few that don't apply) The only ways to get around the legend rule are if the creatures all have different names, or at most one of those with identical names is legendary. It is a state-based action:ħ04.5j If a player controls two or more legendary permanents with the same name, that player chooses one of them, and the rest are put into their owners’ graveyards. ![]() ![]() The rule that is responsible for preventing the existence of multiple identical legendaries is the so called "legend rule". Sakashima the Impostor copies a creature except its name Spark Double copies a creature or planeswalker except it loses legendary.
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