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Prototype Portal

Artifact MV 4

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What it does

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an artifact card from your hand.

X, T: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card. X is the mana value of that card.

Combos with Prototype Portal

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

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Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2011-01-01

    If the exiled card has X in its mana cost (such as Chalice of the Void), that X is considered to be 0. The X in Prototype Portal's activation cost takes this into account, though it may be greater than 0 if the exiled card has other mana symbols in its mana cost (such as Riptide Replicator).

  • 2011-01-01

    You may not activate the second ability if no card has been exiled with Prototype Portal. In that case, the value of X is undefined and can't be paid.

  • 2011-01-01

    You don't choose the value of X. Rather, the value of X is defined by the activated ability.

  • 2011-01-01

    Any "enters" abilities of the exiled card will trigger when the token is put onto the battlefield. Any "as [this permanent] enters" or "[this permanent] enters with" abilities of the exiled card will also work.

  • 2011-01-01

    If Prototype Portal has left the battlefield by the time its second ability resolves, you'll still put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of the exiled card. On the other hand, if Prototype Portal is still on the battlefield at this time but there is no exiled card (because, perhaps, Riftsweeper's ability caused the exiled card to be put into its owner's library), no token is created.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Prototype Portal, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is 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
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Izzet 1 deck

Every version of Prototype Portal

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 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 Prototype Portal. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.