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Self-Reflection

Sorcery MV 6

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What it does

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

Flashback 3 (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Combos with Self-Reflection

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.

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

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

Rulings

11 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-11-08

    You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.

  • 2024-11-08

    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

  • 2024-11-08

    If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.

  • 2024-11-08

    You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

  • 2024-11-08

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

  • 2024-11-08

    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 target creature will also work.

  • 2024-11-08

    If the copied creature is a token, the new token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token.

  • 2024-11-08

    A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.

  • 2024-11-08

    The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or any Auras or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its types, color, power and toughness, and so on.

  • 2024-11-08

    "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."

  • 2024-11-08

    If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters as whatever that creature copied.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Self-Reflection, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 4
Games played 8
Win rate 25%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist 1 7 14.3%
Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief 1 1 —
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Blue 1 deck
  • Sultai 1 deck
  • Simic 1 deck

Every version of Self-Reflection

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 Self-Reflection — 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.