Crystalline Resonance

Card text

Whenever you cycle a card, you may have this enchantment become a copy of another target permanent until your next turn, except it has this ability.

"As a boulder diverts a stream, the crystals bend life around them." -Rielle, the Everwise

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.25 (as of 2026-11-12).

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Format legality

Legality of Crystalline Resonance by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Crystalline Resonance, newest first.

• 2020-04-17 If an effect begins to apply to Crystalline Resonance before it becomes a copy of another permanent, that effect will continue to apply.
• 2020-04-17 If Crystalline Resonance becomes a copy of an object with a set of linked abilities (for example, one ability that exiles a card and another that refers to the card “exiled with” the object), that link only lasts as long as Crystalline Resonance is copying that object. If it stops being a copy of that object and then becomes a copy again later, the link is lost.
• 2020-04-17 If Crystalline Resonance becomes a copy of an Aura, it’s put into its owner’s graveyard unless it’s somehow attached to an appropriate object or player already. If it becomes a copy of an Equipment and is attached to a creature, it’ll become unattached when it becomes an enchantment again.
• 2020-04-17 If Crystalline Resonance becomes a copy of a legendary permanent you control, you’ll put one of them into its owner’s graveyard.
• 2020-04-17 If Crystalline Resonance’s ability triggers multiple times in a turn, then each time one of those abilities resolves, it will overwrite whatever Crystalline Resonance is copying. Crystalline Resonance will wind up as a copy of the permanent targeted by the last ability to resolve. As your next turn begins, all instances of the ability will wear off at the same time.
• 2020-04-17 Crystalline Resonance copies the printed values of the target permanent, plus any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won’t copy counters on that permanent or effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on. Notably, it won’t copy effects that made the target permanent become a creature.
• 2020-04-17 Triggered abilities from cycling a card and the cycling ability itself aren’t spells. Effects that interact with spells (such as that of Cancel) won’t affect them.
• 2020-04-17 If Crystalline Resonance becomes a creature the same turn it enters the battlefield, you can’t attack with it or use any of its {T} abilities (if it gains any) unless it has haste.

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