Cackling Counterpart

Instant

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for the flashback cost. Then exile this.)

Combos

• Cackling Counterpart + Risen Reef
• Agent of Treachery + Cackling Counterpart

Tokens

• Copy Clone

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (46)

wallisface on miirym, sentinel wyrm cackling counterpart …

4 months ago

You’ll get one copy, just from Cackling Counterpart. Miirym only makes copies when nontoken dragons enter, so won’t trigger here.

Neotrup on Splash Lasher token has reminder …

6 months ago

The two previous keywords that made token copies (Embalm and Eternalize) had special rules to remove the mana cost from the token, you can see it spelled out in rules text on Vizier of Many Faces as it's clone effect would normally strip the Embalm changes if they weren't included. This was likely done because of the understanding that "tokens don't have mana cost" as a rule, despite exceptions (such as Cackling Counterpart) already existing at the time. Wizards changed their approach with the Offspring mechanic allowing it to maintain mana cost. This change may have been related to Modern Horizons III introducing the ability to make tokens of cards (such as Ral and the Implicit Maze) which already have costs, but also could have been because the ability to create copies of Permanent Spells (which resolve as tokens with mana cost) was added to the game since the previous keywords were made.

Tsukimi on Bloomburrow

11 months ago

12/10 on this set all around, I cannot remember the last time a set felt this exciting and fresh! The story was pretty clumsy, with a vague "prophecy" just basically thrown at Ral at the very end, but was otherwise nice.

The Offspring mechanic is my favorite mechanic in a while! Really really sad that the Jeskai commander got it cause it feels like such a perfect fit for Bant tokens and lil guys type strats but such is the crumbling cookie. ):

Surprising no one I agree with Crow_Umbra- the most exciting mechanic is the raccoons! I think Expend feels new, and very flavorful for RG being colors that can produce extra mana, and it fills a whole new role for similar cards in the future that has been unexplored thus far.

Last thing I'll say is I have seen quite a few complaints online about the new tokens with mana costs and.... As someone who loves to make token copies of stuff this is nothing new and has been happening since Cackling Counterpart and even earlier cards before it. Seems like such a weird gripe to me?

Tsukimi on Card creation challenge

1 year ago

Ashmkiz, Giver of Form {1}{W}{U}{G}

Legendary Creature - Angel Ooze Elemental

Flying

You may have Ashmkiz, Giver of Forms enter the battlefield as a copy of any target creature except it has Ashmkiz's other abilities.

Whenever a creature token enters the battlefield, you gain one life.

{W}{U}{G}: Populate. Activate this ability only once each turn.

3/3

"Ashmkiz is a child of the leylines, they are pure life and pure mana. Around them, the world is as transient as Ashmkiz itself."

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If anyone has been here for a while and is seeing my umpteenth version of a bant populate commander, I'm sorry but I will never stop lol. The blue in their color identity operates as a clone but it also gives you much more power/flexibility when using cards like Cackling Counterpart which make token copies of your own creatures. I want a commander like this so bad but I don't think WOTC will ever give me one ):

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Caran_Lyg on How Do You Feel About …

1 year ago

ETB then copies a nonland permanent? I don’t think I’ve seen those myself. If they exist I’d like to see because I still use Cackling Counterpart and that other Sorcery? It’s from Ravnica Allegiance I think.

_Delta_ on many fae one name

2 years ago

Vesuvan Diplomacy seems like a fun new one for such a deck when it gets added to the site, and here are a bunch of other cards I thought of which might be of use here including:

Hydra's Growth, Visions of Dominance, Berserk, Primal Might, Exponential Growth, Invigorating Surge, Aspect of Hydra, Colossification, Octopus Umbra, Stolen Identity, Swarm Intelligence, Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy, Guardian Augmenter, Hunter's Insight, Snake Umbra, Stormchaser Drake, Artisan of Forms, Soul's Majesty, Charge Through, Battle Mammoth, Shapers' Sanctuary, Combine Chrysalis, Adrix and Nev, Twincasters, & Esix, Fractal Bloom

Andramalech on Shifty Crabs!

2 years ago

Hey Squee_Spirit_Guide! I've actually had a deck like this put together for quite some time! I would love your feedback on it, and I have definitely been caught calling it 'Crabshift' before or even 'Hedronshift'.

For me, I developed this build because of what I had seen from Scapeshift builds that used typical Valakut combo or Primeval Titan, except I was in love (and have always been!) With crabs. Specifically Hedron Crab.

Would love to hear your thoughts on it as I lean solely into the crabs doing my heavy lifting, a lot of my deck looks like a hyper-meta mono blue mill deck.

Another variant I had put together uses Renegade Doppelganger, Artisan of Forms, and Quasiduplicate and Cackling Counterpart to 'Shadow Clone Jutsu' my crabs.

The link for my 'Crabshift' : UG Crabs

DrkNinja on Blue/green token

3 years ago

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