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Sublime Epiphany

Instant MV 6

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What it does

Choose one or more —

• Counter target spell.

• Counter target activated or triggered ability.

• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

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

• Target player draws a card.

Combos with Sublime Epiphany

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.

  • Naru Meha, Master Wizard Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite card draw for any number of players
    • Infinite draw triggers for any number of players
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Dualcaster Mage Infinite
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite card draw for any number of players
    • Infinite draw triggers for any number of players
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mirror-Mad Phantasm Infinite
    • Infinite self-mill
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Specimen Collector Blasting Station Infinite
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite damage
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Specimen Collector Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Specimen Collector Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Specimen Collector Altar of Dementia Infinite
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mill
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite self-mill
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Scholar of the Ages Turnabout Infinite
    • Infinite card draw for any number of players
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite draw triggers for any number of players
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
    • Infinite storm count
    • Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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

15 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2020-06-23

    Triggered abilities use the word "when," "whenever," or "at." They're often written as "[Trigger condition], [effect]." Some keyword abilities (such as prowess) are triggered abilities and will have "when," "whenever," or "at" in their reminder text.

  • 2020-06-23

    You can't choose any one mode more than once.

  • 2020-06-23

    Abilities that create replacement effects, such as a permanent entering the battlefield tapped or with counters on it, can't be countered. Abilities that apply "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" are also replacement effects and can't be countered.

  • 2020-06-23

    If the copied creature is itself a token, the token created by Sublime Epiphany copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created it.

  • 2020-06-23

    If you choose more than one mode, you perform the modes in the order specified. For example, if you choose to counter target spell, return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand, and have target player draw a card, that permanent will be on the battlefield while that spell is countered (and may modify, affect, or trigger on that event) but will not be on the battlefield while that player draws a card.

  • 2020-06-23

    Sublime Epiphany's second mode counters only activated and triggered abilities already on the stack. It doesn't prevent abilities from being activated or from triggering later in the turn, and it has no effect on static abilities.

  • 2020-06-23

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

  • 2020-06-23

    Activated abilities are written in the form "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keyword abilities (such as equip) are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder texts.

  • 2020-06-23

    Sublime Epiphany's second mode can't counter an activated or triggered mana ability. An activated mana ability is one that could add mana as it resolves, doesn't have a target, and isn't a loyalty ability. A triggered mana ability is one that could add mana as it resolves and triggers on an activated mana ability.

  • 2020-06-23

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

  • 2020-06-23

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

  • 2020-06-23

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

  • 2020-06-23

    If you choose the third and fourth modes and target the same creature you control both times, you'll return it and then create a token that's a copy of it, using its copiable values as it last appeared on the battlefield. This is because the legality of targets is checked only as the spell begins to resolve, before any actions are performed.

  • 2020-06-23

    If you counter a delayed triggered ability that triggered at the beginning of the "next" occurrence of a specified step or phase, that ability won't trigger again the following time that phase or step occurs.

  • 2020-06-23

    If any of the targets become illegal, the remaining targets are affected as appropriate.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Sublime Epiphany, 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
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 2 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Esper 2 decks

Every version of Sublime Epiphany

8 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.

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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.