Agate Instigator

Format legality

Where you can play Agate Instigator in sanctioned and popular formats.

All printings (3)

Prices range from $8.02 to $10.54 across finishes. Cheapest printing: Bloomburrow Commander at $8.02.

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Rulings

Official rulings from Wizards of the Coast (9).

• 2024-07-26You can pay an offspring cost only once as you cast a spell with offspring. You can't try to pay it multiple times to get more token copies.
• 2024-07-26If the spell is countered, the offspring ability will not trigger, and no token will be created.
• 2024-07-26If the spell resolves but the creature with offspring leaves the battlefield before the offspring ability resolves, you'll still create a token copy of it.
• 2024-07-26The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else, except it's a 1/1 (unless that creature 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 Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its types, color, or so on.
• 2024-07-26In the rare case where the original creature is copying something else when the offspring ability resolves, the token enters as whatever that creature copied, except it's a 1/1.
• 2024-07-26Many creatures with offspring abilities have other abilities that refer to them as "this creature" rather than referring to them by name. This difference is for clarity purposes and does not change the function of any of these abilities.
• 2024-07-26Any "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 copied creature will also work.
• 2024-07-26The token created by the offspring ability isn't "cast", so abilities that trigger when a creature spell is cast won't trigger for the copy.
• 2024-07-26In the rare case where the creature doesn't have the offspring ability when it enters, the ability won't trigger even if you paid the offspring cost.

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