Cackling Counterpart

Instant, 1UU (3)

Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of target creature you control.

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

Illus. David Rapoza

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 9/22/2011: The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
• 9/22/2011: If you copy a double-faced creature, the token will be a copy of the face that's up when the token is created. Because the token is not a double-faced card, it won't be able to transform.
• 9/22/2011: If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be zero.
• 9/22/2011: If the copied creature is copying something else (for example, if the copied creature is an Evil Twin), then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
• 9/22/2011: If the copied creature is a token, the token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put the token onto the battlefield.
• 9/22/2011: Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the chosen creature will also work.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern