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Rite of Replication

Sorcery MV 4

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What it does

Kicker 5 (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.)

Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Combos with Rite of Replication

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

Rulings

12 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-11-08

    If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."

  • 2024-11-08

    The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.

  • 2024-11-08

    If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.

  • 2024-11-08

    If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.

  • 2024-11-08

    To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

  • 2024-11-08

    If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.

  • 2025-09-19

    If the copied creature is copying something else, then the tokens enter the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.

  • 2025-09-19

    If the copied creature is a token, the tokens created copy the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token.

  • 2025-09-19

    The tokens copy exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that permanent is itself copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether that permanent 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, and so on.

  • 2025-09-19

    "Kicker [cost]" means "You may pay an additional [cost] as you cast this spell."

  • 2025-09-19

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

  • 2025-09-19

    If the copied creature has X in its mana cost, X is 0.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Rite of Replication, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 5
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
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 2 0 —
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 1 0 —
Rootha, Mastering the Moment 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Esper 2 decks
  • Mono-Blue 1 deck
  • Izzet 1 deck

Every version of Rite of Replication

12 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.

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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.