Incarnation Technique card art

Incarnation Technique

Sorcery MV 5

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it.)

Mill five cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Combos with Incarnation Technique

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Altar of Dementia Dualcaster Mage Infinite
    • Infinite self-mill
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite mill
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Scholar of the Ages Sacrifice Infinite
    • Infinite black mana
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite self-mill
    • Infinite storm count
    • Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2021-04-16

    You choose whether to make a copy as the demonstrate ability resolves. This happens before the original spell resolves. Your copy goes on the stack above the original spell.

  • 2021-04-16

    You may choose any creature card in your graveyard, not just one that you milled this way.

  • 2021-04-16

    This means that if you cast a spell with demonstrate and both you and an opponent copy it, the opponent’s copy will resolve first, then your copy will resolve, and finally the original spell will resolve.

  • 2021-04-16

    If you copy a spell with demonstrate, you then immediately choose an opponent. If they copy the spell, it goes on top of the stack.

  • 2021-04-16

    You choose which creature to bring back after you mill five cards.

  • 2021-04-16

    If you cast the spell and choose not to copy it, no opponent will get to copy it either.

  • 2021-04-16

    If the spell requires targets, you choose the target of the original spell as you cast it. If you create a copy of the spell, you may choose new targets for the copy as you create that copy. Similarly, the opponent you chose to create a copy may choose new targets for that copy as it’s created. In other words, your opponent will know the targets of your original spell and your copy when choosing the new targets, if any, for their copy.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Incarnation Technique, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 1
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
Betor, Ancestor's Voice 1 1

Colors it shows up in

  • Abzan 1 deck

Every version of Incarnation Technique

3 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 Incarnation Technique — 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.