The Apprentice's Folly
The Apprentice's Folly: Enchantment - Saga, Wilds of Eldraine. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}{R}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Enchantment - Saga
- Colour identity
- Blue and red (UR)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine (WOE)
- Released
- 2023-09-08
- Collector number
- 200
- Artist
- Tuan Duong Chu
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About The Apprentice's Folly
The Apprentice's Folly is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and red enchantment from Wilds of Eldraine (WOE), an expansion set released in September 2023. It is collector number 200 in that set, with art by Tuan Duong Chu. It costs {2}{U}{R} (two generic, one blue and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is blue and red. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.30 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II - Choose target nontoken creature you control that doesn't have the same name as a token you control. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it isn't legendary, is a Reflection in addition to its other types, and has haste.
III - Sacrifice all Reflections you control.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.30 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of The Apprentice's Folly by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of The Apprentice's Folly
The Apprentice's Folly has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Wilds of Eldraine Promos (PWOE) #200p | Rare | 2023 |
| Wilds of Eldraine Promos (PWOE) #200s | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to The Apprentice's Folly, newest first.
- If something becomes a copy of the token, the copy is also a Reflection in addition to its other types, has haste, and isn't legendary.
- Except for the listed exceptions, the token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that permanent is itself copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether that permanent is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
- If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
- If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied, with the stated exceptions.
- Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the creature will also work.
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