Phantasmal Image
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Illusion
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 0
- Set
- Forgotten Realms Commander #89 (rare)
- Price
- $4.23 USD
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."
Phantasmal Image has 5 printings, first in Magic 2012 (2011). EDHREC ranks it #1,515 among Commander cards. It appears most in Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin decks (4,885 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Phantasmal Image
- Dungeons of Death - Forgotten Realms Commander, led by Sefris of the Hidden Ways
Commanders that run Phantasmal Image most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin: 4,885 decks
- Minn, Wily Illusionist: 4,146 decks
- Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy: 3,820 decks
- Sefris of the Hidden Ways: 3,152 decks
- Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior: 2,966 decks
- Gyruda, Doom of Depths: 2,785 decks
- Uugguu, the Omniplasm: 2,460 decks
- Hidetsugu and Kairi: 2,242 decks
Often played with Phantasmal Image
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If Phantasmal Image somehow enters the battlefield at the same time as another creature, Phantasmal Image can't become a copy of that creature. You may choose only a creature that's already on the battlefield.
- : If the chosen creature is copying something else (for example, if the chosen creature is another Phantasmal Image), then Phantasmal Image enters the battlefield as whatever the chosen creature copied.
- : Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when Phantasmal Image 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.
- : Phantasmal Image copies exactly what was printed on the original creature (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below) and it gains the Illusion creature type and the triggered ability. It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
- : If the chosen creature is a token, Phantasmal Image copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token. Phantasmal Image is not a token in this case.
- : The Illusion creature type and the triggered ability that Phantasmal Image gains as part of its copy effect are both copiable values that other effects may copy.
- : If the chosen creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.