Mask of the Mimic
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SetSTH
Collector #37
Released1998-03-02
Rarityuncommon
ArtistHeather Hudson
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Mask of the Mimic

UncommonColour IDMV 1
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card with the same name as target nontoken creature, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (5)
wotc15 Apr 2013
Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.
wotc15 Apr 2013
You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.
wotc4 Oct 2004
You do not have to find a card if you do not want to.
wotc4 Oct 2004
You look for a card of the same name, the current type of the card does not matter.
wotc4 Oct 2004
If a copy card is targeted by this effect, you get to look for another copy of the card it is copying. This is because a copy card actually takes on the name and initial characteristics of what it copies.