Impostor Syndrome
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This printing
SetOM1
Collector #32
Released2025-09-23
Raritymythic
ArtistTehani Farr
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Impostor Syndrome

MythicColour IDMV 6
Enchantment
Whenever a nontoken creature you control deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of it, except it isn't legendary.
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
3 other English printingsEarliest 2025-09-26Newest 2025-09-26Cheapest priced $7.59 in SPM
Rulings (5)
wotc19 Sept 2025
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities 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 creature will also work.
wotc19 Sept 2025
If something becomes a copy of the token, the copy also isn't legendary.
wotc19 Sept 2025
If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters as whatever that creature copied, with the listed exceptions.
wotc19 Sept 2025
Except for not being legendary, 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.
wotc19 Sept 2025
If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.