Agate Instigator
Agate Instigator: Creature - Lizard Rogue, Bloomburrow Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Creature - Lizard Rogue
- Colour identity
- Red (R)
- Power / toughness
- 1/3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow Commander (BLC)
- Released
- 2024-08-02
- Collector number
- 21
- Artist
- Quintin Gleim
- Commander rank
- 1,187 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Offspring
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About Agate Instigator
Agate Instigator is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare red creature from Bloomburrow Commander (BLC), a Commander product released in August 2024. It is collector number 21 in that set, with art by Quintin Gleim. It costs {1}{R} (one generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 1/3 creature. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 2 sets, from The List (2020) to Bloomburrow Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $9.72 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Offspring {1}{R} (You may pay an additional {1}{R} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $9.72 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Agate Instigator by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Agate Instigator
Agate Instigator has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #BLC-21 | Rare | 2026 |
| Bloomburrow Commander (BLC) #56 | Rare | 2024 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Agate Instigator, newest first.
- Any "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.
- Many 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.
- In 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.
- The 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.
- If the spell is countered, the offspring ability will not trigger, and no token will be created.
- In 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.
- If 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.
- You 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.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Agate Instigator is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.