Mimic Vat
Commander 2020 246 • rare
- Set
- Commander 2020
- Collector number
- 246
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Donato Giancola
- Market price
- $0.60
What it does
Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with this artifact to its owner's graveyard.
3 generic mana, tap: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with this artifact. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Mimic Vat first appeared in the Scars of Mirrodin expansion in 2010, designed to capture the set's themes of modularity and interaction with the graveyard. It was envisioned by the Magic: The Gathering design team as a utility artifact that could exile creatures as they died, allowing the player to create temporary tokens of those creatures. The artwork by Volkan Baga features a stark, biomechanical aesthetic typical of the Mirrodin plane, emphasizing the Vat's purpose as a machine for recycling organic matter into temporary, synthetic copies.
The Commander 2020 reprint, which bears the collector number 246, brought this classic utility piece to a new generation of players within the popular multiplayer Commander format. By this point in the game's history, the card had established itself as a versatile staple, valued for its ability to generate significant board presence by retriggering powerful enter-the-battlefield effects. Its inclusion in a preconstructed deck made it accessible to many, solidifying its reputation as a strategic favorite for players looking to maximize value from the creatures that pass through their graveyard.
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