Price$10.74 – $18.76
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Creature — Illusion
LegalRank #407
You may have this creature enter 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, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.
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Why is this card good?
Spark Double is one of the best clone effects in Commander precisely because it sidesteps the legend rule — you copy your own creatures and planeswalkers without blowing one up.
The marquee use is copying your commander. Two copies of your commander on the battlefield means redundant value, and the copy dodges commander tax. It's also fantastic in:
- Superfriends/planeswalker decks — doubling a planeswalker with an extra loyalty counter is huge tempo.
- +1/+1 counter / Simic decks — the bonus counter synergizes, and you can copy your best engine creature.
- Combo decks — copy any infinite-mana or value engine piece.
The extra counter is a nice bonus that occasionally matters (haste enablers, undying interactions).
When not to play it: decks with no high-value permanents to copy. A vanilla clone is mediocre if your best target is a 2/2. It also wants you to already have a body or walker resolved, so it's reactive — weak on an empty board. Best in decks built around a powerful commander or standout permanents.
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Printings (9)
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Combos (8)
- Spark Double + Felidar Guardian
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB
- Pramikon, Sky Rampart + Spark Double
→ Creatures can't attack, Lock
- Felidar Guardian + Spark Double + Panharmonicon
→ Infinite blinking, Infinite colored mana, Infinite ETB
- Orvar, the All-Form + Spark Double + Mind Games
→ Infinite copies of artifacts, creatures and lands you control, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB
- Aminatou, the Fateshifter + Spark Double + Oath of Teferi
→ Infinite blinking of permanents, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Orvar, the All-Form + Spark Double + Whim of Volrath
→ Infinite copies of permanents you control, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB
Rulings (9)
- 2019-05-03
Spark Double copies exactly what was printed on the original permanent (unless that permanent is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that permanent is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or any Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
- 2019-05-03
Spark Double isn’t legendary if it copies a legendary permanent, and this exception is copiable. If something else copies Spark Double later, that copy also won’t be legendary. If you control two or more permanents with the same name but only one is legendary, the “legend rule” doesn’t apply.
- 2019-05-03
If the copied permanent has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0. - 2019-05-03
If the chosen permanent is copying something else (for example, if the chosen permanent is another Spark Double), then Spark Double enters the battlefield as whatever the chosen permanent copied.
- 2019-05-03
If the chosen permanent is a token, Spark Double copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token. Spark Double doesn’t become a token in this case.
- 2019-05-03
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied permanent will trigger when Spark Double enters the battlefield. Any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the chosen permanent will also work.
- 2019-05-03
If it copies a planeswalker, Spark Double enters with the appropriate number of loyalty counters as printed on the card plus one. If it copies a creature, Spark Double enters with a +1/+1 counter on it, plus any counters that will be put on it from abilities it copied and other abilities of other objects.
- 2019-05-03
If the copied permanent is affected by a type-changing effect, Spark Double may enter the battlefield with different permanent types than the copied permanent currently has. Use the characteristics of Spark Double as it enters the battlefield, not of the copied permanent, to determine whether it enters with an additional counter on it. Notably, if Spark Double copies a Gideon planeswalker that’s a creature because its loyalty ability caused it to become a planeswalker creature, Spark Double enters as a noncreature planeswalker and doesn’t get a +1/+1 counter. On the other hand, if Spark Double copies Gideon Blackblade during your turn, Spark Double enters as a planeswalker creature and gets both kinds of counters.
- 2019-05-03
If Spark Double somehow enters the battlefield at the same time as another permanent, it can’t become a copy of that permanent. You may choose only a creature or planeswalker that’s already on the battlefield.