Panoptic Mirror
Panoptic Mirror: Artifact, Darksteel. Imprint - X, Tap: You may exile an instant or sorcery card with mana value X from your hand. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {5}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Artifact
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Darksteel (DST)
- Released
- 2004-02-06
- Collector number
- 136
- Artist
- Glen Angus
- Commander rank
- 10,310 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Imprint
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About Panoptic Mirror
Panoptic Mirror is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact from Darksteel (DST), an expansion set released in February 2004. It is collector number 136 in that set, with art by Glen Angus. It costs {5} (five generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $16.03 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Imprint - {X}, {T}: You may exile an instant or sorcery card with mana value X from your hand.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may copy a card exiled with this artifact. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $16.03 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Panoptic Mirror by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Panoptic Mirror
Panoptic Mirror 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 Zeta Set (SLZ) #110 | Mythic | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #231 | Mythic | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #352 | Mythic | 2026 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Panoptic Mirror, newest first.
- To imprint a split card, you pay X equal to card's mana value, determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If the copied card is a split card, you choose which one side of it to cast, but you can't cast both sides.
- The creation of the copy and then the casting of the copy are both optional.
- You may imprint a card on Panoptic Mirror in response to the upkeep-triggered ability. If you do, that card is available to copy when the triggered ability resolves.
- Exiling a card when the activated ability resolves is optional. If you choose to exile a card, you can exile only a card with mana value equal to X.
- As Panoptic Mirror's triggered ability resolves, it allows you to create a copy of one of the instant or sorcery cards imprinted on Panoptic Mirror in the Exile zone (that's where the imprinted card is) and then cast it without paying its mana cost.
- You don't pay the spell's mana cost. If the spell has X in its mana cost, X is 0. You do pay any additional costs for that spell. You can't use any alternative costs.
- The triggered ability triggers only once each upkeep, not once per imprinted card. If no cards are imprinted on Panoptic Mirror when the triggered ability resolves, it does nothing.
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