Spark Double

Creature — Illusion

You may have Spark Double enter the battlefield as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, or an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Combos

• Glen Elendra Archmage + Phyrexian Altar + Spark Double
• Corpse Knight + Felidar Guardian + Spark Double
• Felidar Guardian + Spark Double + Vela the Night-Clad
• Spark Double + Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom

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
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

Rhadamanthus on Spark Double copying Watchful Radstag

3 days ago

Only the actual Spark Double copy will enter with an additional +1/+1 counter. Other copies it makes of itself won't get that. Spark Double's copy effect isn't adding another ability "[this] enters with an additional +1/+1 counter..." to its copiable characteristics, it's just giving you an additional instruction to follow as the copy effect is applied. In terms of abilities and other copiable values, it will just be a normal Watchful Radstag.

Last_Laugh on We Ride at Dawn!

4 days ago

A few more ways to reliably trigger Eowyn every turn without casting anything goes a long way here. Consider Reinforced Ronin, The Jolly Balloon Man, Riders of the Mark, Apothecary White, Outlaws' Merriment, and Horn of Gondor.

Goldnight Commander, Jurin, Leading the Charge, Cosmogrand Zenith, Spark Double, Collective Inferno, and City on Fire are all great ways to crank out the damage (and those convoke spells are made easy with tokens).

AkaAkuma on Miirym, Spooky Lizard Flap-Flap!!!

5 months ago

It seems that you already lean into the idea with Spark Double/Cursed Mirror - but i build Miirym as a "copy" commander, and only included some of the beefy dragons to top it off.

Visage Bandit can be plotted turn(s) before Miirym enters, then you cast the bandit on the turn Miirym enters. Miirym creates a non-legend token, Visage bandit dies by legend rule but now you have copy token that can be copied without legend rule issues.

1 Miirym turns to 2, another copy now makes 5 Miirym (2 existing + 2 new + copy), a third copy spell and you have 11 Miiryms... And this gets wild easily with Dragon Tempest or Scourge of Valkas.

Other good options are Naga Fleshcrafter that can make everything a Miirym (or a Utvara Hellkite) in a pinch. Pirated Copy is a great one. Dack's Duplicate gives all Miirym tokens haste,... and there are many more options.

I also really love Sneak Attack with Miirym, and another fun one to copy etb's is Mirror of Life Trapping. Just make sure the mirror isn't removed while Miirym is exiled with it.

austintayshus on Commodore Guff is sexy af

5 months ago

Thanks for the suggestions Salyir.

I really like Ripples of Potential and I took Spark Double out to make room for more proliferate. I might have to make room for both.

Salyir on Commodore Guff is sexy af

5 months ago

Displacer Kitten and Spark Double are two of the best cards in my Guff list. Also, Ripples of Potential and Jeskai Ascendancy are quite good in the deck.

Polaris on Volo, guide to monsters and …

7 months ago

This doesn't work the way you hope, for two reasons.

To start with, yes, you can absolutely do this. You cast Mirror Image, which has the type Shapeshifter. This triggers Volo, Guide to Monsters if you don't have any Shapeshifters in play or in your graveyard, copying the spell. If no one responds, you'll respond the copied Mirror Image, which will create a token Mirror Image that can enter as a copy of any creature you control, then the original spell will resolve and Mirror Image will enter (again, can enter as a copy).

On the battlefield, the Mirror Images will be whatever they copied, and will therefore enter as something other than Shapeshifters unless you decided for some reason not to copy anything. This doesn't matter to Volo, because he triggers when the spell is cast, not when the spell resolves and the creature enters the battlefield.

With all that said, here are the two issues:

First, Volo triggers only on cast. Having a second Volo when your Mirror Image original (not the copy) enters won't do anything because it's not being cast, it's entering the battlefield. This would only work if you already had two Volos when you cast Mirror Image.

Second, however, Volo is a legendary creature. If at any point you control two legendary creatures with the same name, you must sacrifice all but one of them as a state-based action. At the moment Mirror Image enters as Volo, you will have two copies of Volo (and this could potentially trigger enters-the-battlefield abilities of something), but immediately after that, before anyone can respond or anything can resolve, you will have to pick one Volo and sacrifice the rest of them.

The only way around this kind of thing is a clone like Spark Double, which can copy legendary creatures without issue because it removes the legendary typing when it copies something, or another way around the legend rule like Mirror Gallery or Sakashima of a Thousand Faces.

IlLupo643 on Will Valgavoth be the Next …

8 months ago

Admittedly, I didn't read into any of Outlaws. I personally had 0 interest in the wild west and cowfolks. So perhaps I am mistaken here and elsewhere. But only a disguise? Boring. I thought that was how he found his spark, in that he had made a Spark Double of himself and reclaimed it as his own. It made sense to me. If you are going to sit in the villain seat, act the part. Be a villain. Villains are always more interesting then those who beat them. Try harder Jace. Try. Harder.

CommanderNeyo on The King of Bel

11 months ago

Be'lakor also works really well with copies, so I recommend Spark Double and Sakashima of a Thousand Faces