Twinning Staff

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Twinning Staff: Artifact, New Capenna Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{3}
Mana value
3
Type
Artifact
Colour identity
Colourless
Rarity
Rare
Set
New Capenna Commander (NCC)
Released
2022-04-29
Collector number
383
Artist
Mike Bierek
Commander rank
1,697 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Twinning Staff

Twinning Staff is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact from New Capenna Commander (NCC), a Commander product released in April 2022. It is collector number 383 in that set, with art by Mike Bierek. It costs {3} (three generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Commander 2020 (2020) to New Capenna Commander (2022). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $17.08 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

If you would copy a spell one or more times, instead copy it that many times plus an additional time. You may choose new targets for the additional copy.

{7}, {T}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $17.08 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Twinning Staff by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Twinning Staff

Twinning Staff has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Commander 2020 (C20) #70Rare2020

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Twinning Staff, newest first.

  • You may choose new targets for the additional copy, even if you can't choose new targets for the original copy or copies.
  • You choose whether the additional copy is put onto the stack before or after the original copy. If a spell is being copied more than once, you can even have the additional copy put onto the stack in between the original copies.
  • Twinning Staff's last ability can copy any instant or sorcery spell you control, not just one with targets.
  • The copy is created on the stack, so it's not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger. It will resolve before the original spell does.
  • If you have a second Twinning Staff, copying a spell results in two additional copies. If you have a third, you get three additional copies, and so on.
  • If the spell that's copied is modal (that is, it says “Choose one -” or the like), the copy will have the same mode. A different mode can't be chosen.
  • The copy will have the same targets as the spell it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
  • If an effect copies a card rather than a spell (such as that of God-Eternal Kefnet), this doesn't cause an additional copy to be created.

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