Spitting Image

Format legality

Where you can play Spitting Image in sanctioned and popular formats.

All printings (5)

Prices range from $0.23 to $4.88 across finishes. Cheapest printing: Commander Anthology Volume II at $0.23.

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Rulings

Official rulings from Wizards of the Coast (5).

• 2008-08-01Casting 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.
• 2008-08-01A retrace card cast from your graveyard follows the normal timing rules for its card type.
• 2008-08-01When 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.
• 2008-08-01If 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.
• 2008-08-01As 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.

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