Cackling Counterpart

Card text

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

Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.34 (as of 2026-11-11).

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Format legality

Legality of Cackling Counterpart by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

Other printings of Cackling Counterpart

Cackling Counterpart has been printed in 7 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Cackling Counterpart, newest first.

• 2025-01-24 Any “enters” triggered ability of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any “as [this creature] enters” or “[this creature] enters with” abilities of the chosen creature will also work.
• 2025-01-24 If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
• 2025-01-24 The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; 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 power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
• 2025-01-24 If the copied creature is a token, the token that’s created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token.
• 2025-01-24 If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
• 2024-11-08 "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."
• 2024-11-08 To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
• 2024-11-08 You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

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