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Stolen Identity

Sorcery MV 6

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What it does

Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Combos with Stolen Identity

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

17 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2013-01-24

    If the token you create is a copy of a creature, you can exile Stolen Identity encoded on that token.

  • 2013-01-24

    If the copied permanent is a token, the token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put the token onto the battlefield.

  • 2013-01-24

    If the copied permanent has X in its mana cost, X is considered to be zero.

  • 2013-01-24

    If the copied permanent is copying something else (for example, if the copied creature is a Clone), then the token enters as whatever that creature copied.

  • 2013-01-24

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

  • 2013-01-24

    The token copies exactly what was printed on the original artifact or creature and nothing else (unless that permanent is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether it is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.

  • 2013-04-15

    If another player gains control of the creature, that player will control the triggered ability. That player will create a copy of the encoded card and may cast it.

  • 2013-04-15

    You choose the creature as the spell resolves. The cipher ability doesn't target that creature, although the spell with cipher may target that creature (or a different creature) because of its other abilities.

  • 2013-04-15

    If the spell with cipher doesn't resolve, none of its effects will happen, including cipher. The card will go to its owner's graveyard and won't be encoded on a creature.

  • 2013-04-15

    The spell with cipher is encoded on the creature as part of that spell's resolution, just after the spell's other effects. That card goes directly from the stack to exile. It never goes to the graveyard.

  • 2013-04-15

    If the creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card will no longer be encoded on any creature. It will stay exiled.

  • 2013-04-15

    If you choose not to cast the copy, or you can't cast it (perhaps because there are no legal targets available), the copy will cease to exist the next time state-based actions are performed. You won't get a chance to cast the copy at a later time.

  • 2013-04-15

    The exiled card with cipher grants a triggered ability to the creature it's encoded on. If that creature loses that ability and subsequently deals combat damage to a player, the triggered ability won't trigger. However, the exiled card will continue to be encoded on that creature.

  • 2013-04-15

    The copy of the card with cipher is created in and cast from exile.

  • 2013-04-15

    You cast the copy of the card with cipher during the resolution of the triggered ability. Ignore timing restrictions based on the card's type.

  • 2013-04-15

    If a creature with an encoded card deals combat damage to more than one player simultaneously (perhaps because some of the combat damage was redirected), the triggered ability will trigger once for each player it deals combat damage to. Each ability will create a copy of the exiled card and allow you to cast it.

  • 2013-04-15

    If you want to encode the card with cipher onto a noncreature permanent such as a Keyrune that can turn into a creature, that permanent has to be a creature before the spell with cipher starts resolving. You can choose only a creature to encode the card onto.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Stolen Identity, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
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
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 1 0 —
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Blue 1 deck
  • Izzet 1 deck

Every version of Stolen Identity

4 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 Stolen Identity — 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.