Esoteric Duplicator
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Artifact — Clue
- Set
- The Big Score #5 (mythic)
- Price
- $1.32 USD
Whenever you sacrifice this artifact or another artifact, you may pay {2}. If you do, at the beginning of the next end step, create a token that's a copy of that artifact.
{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Esoteric Duplicator has 4 printings, first in The Big Score (2024). EDHREC ranks it #6,678 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mishra, Eminent One decks (2,429 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Esoteric Duplicator most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mishra, Eminent One: 2,429 decks
- Saheeli, Radiant Creator: 2,259 decks
- Ashnod the Uncaring: 1,368 decks
- Breya, Etherium Shaper: 1,191 decks
- Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance: 835 decks
- Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy: 214 decks
- Arcum Dagsson: 197 decks
- Tawnos, Solemn Survivor: 189 decks
Often played with Esoteric Duplicator
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The token copies exactly what was printed on the original artifact and nothing else (unless that artifact was copying something else or was a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that artifact was tapped or untapped, whether it had any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
- : If the copied artifact was copying something else when it was last on the battlefield, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that artifact copied.
- : Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied artifact will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any “as [this artifact] enters the battlefield” or “[this artifact] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the copied artifact will also work.
- : If the copied artifact was a token, the token that’s created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token.
- : If the copied artifact had {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.