Adipose Offspring
Creature — Alien
Emerge 
(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When this creature enters, create a 2/2 white Alien creature token. If this creature's emerge cost was paid, instead create X of those tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #17092
Adipose Offspring is a 1/1 for one white that creates another 1/1 token when it dies — modest stats, but the death trigger makes it a persistent two-body play for a single mana. It earns its slot in token-doubler and sacrifice shells; everywhere else, it's too low-impact to bother.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Adipose Offspring is a Commander card through and through — the format's multiplayer life totals and longer games give the token generation real breathing room inside aristocrats and go-wide strategies. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, a 1/1 for one that replaces itself with another 1/1 doesn't come close to the power threshold those formats demand. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth noting: cheap token generators pair cleanly with planeswalker-centric engines, and Adipose Offspring's low cost makes it easy to jam alongside a +1/+1 or token-doubling signature spell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Adipose Offspring sits firmly in bulk territory — you're picking this up as an afterthought in a pile order, not as a targeted buy. Bulk token producers rarely appreciate unless a breakout commander drives sudden demand, so treat it as a low-cost role-player and nothing more.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.