Spitting Image
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Create a token that's a copy of target creature.
Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2008-08-01
Casting a card by using its retrace ability works just like casting any other spell, with two exceptions: You're casting it from your graveyard rather than your hand, and you must discard a land card in addition to any other costs.
- 2008-08-01
When a retrace card you cast from your graveyard resolves, fails to resolve, or is countered, it's put back into your graveyard. You may use the retrace ability to cast it again.
- 2008-08-01
A retrace card cast from your graveyard follows the normal timing rules for its card type.
- 2008-08-01
If the active player casts a spell that has retrace, that player may cast that card again after it resolves, before another player can remove the card from the graveyard. The active player has priority after the spell resolves, so they can immediately cast a new spell. Since casting a card with retrace from the graveyard moves that card onto the stack, no one else would have the chance to affect it while it's still in the graveyard.
- 2008-08-01
As the token is created, it checks the printed values of the creature it's copying — or, if that creature is itself a token, the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield — as well as any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won't copy counters on the creature, nor will it copy other effects that have changed the creature's power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Spitting Image, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief | 1 | 1 | — |
| Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Simic 2 decks
Spitting Image price history
The Commander 2021 #229 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.27 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Spitting Image
5 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. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.29
- Normal
- $0.27
- Normal
- $0.22
- Normal
- $0.24
- Normal
- $0.30
- Foil
- $4.88
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Spitting Image. 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.
