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Coruscation Mage

Creature — Otter Wizard MV 2

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What it does

Offspring 2 (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Rulings

10 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-07-26

    If the spell is countered, the offspring ability will not trigger, and no token will be created.

  • 2024-07-26

    In the rare case where the creature doesn’t have the offspring ability when it enters, the ability won’t trigger even if you paid the offspring cost.

  • 2024-07-26

    If the spell resolves but the creature with offspring leaves the battlefield before the offspring ability resolves, you’ll still create a token copy of it.

  • 2024-07-26

    Many creatures with offspring abilities have other abilities that refer to them as “this creature” rather than referring to them by name. This difference is for clarity purposes and does not change the function of any of these abilities.

  • 2024-07-26

    You can pay an offspring cost only once as you cast a spell with offspring. You can’t try to pay it multiple times to get more token copies.

  • 2024-07-26

    The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else, except it’s a 1/1 (unless that creature is copying something else; 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 types, color, or so on.

  • 2024-07-26

    Coruscation Mage’s last ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.

  • 2024-07-26

    The token created by the offspring ability isn’t “cast”, so abilities that trigger when a creature spell is cast won’t trigger for the copy.

  • 2024-07-26

    In the rare case where the original creature is copying something else when the offspring ability resolves, the token enters as whatever that creature copied, except it’s a 1/1.

  • 2024-07-26

    Any “enters” abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters. Any “as [this creature] enters” or “[this creature] enters with” abilities of the copied creature will also work.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Coruscation Mage, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 4
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 2 0 —
https://archidekt.com/decks/23622275/crystal 1 0 —
Veyran, Voice of Duality 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Rakdos 2 decks
  • Izzet 1 deck

Every version of Coruscation Mage

2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Coruscation Mage — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.