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Determined Iteration

Enchantment

At the beginning of combat on your turn, populate. The token created this way gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4067
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Determined Iteration card art
Determined Iteration doubles every token you make at end of combat — that's not a incremental advantage, that's an exponential one. The cost is real: you need a steady stream of token-making creatures in play, which is why it slots most naturally into commanders like Feldon of the Third Path and Rootha, Mastering the Moment rather than generic token decks. If your deck can feed it, it closes games fast.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Rootha, Mastering the Moment

Rootha, Mastering the Moment

69.3% of decks · synergy 0.68

Rootha, Mastering the Moment copies instants and sorceries, and Determined Iteration turns every token that copy produces into a doubling engine by end of combat — each spell Rootha doubles becomes a compounding board presence.

02
The Master, Multiplied

The Master, Multiplied

63.3% of decks · synergy 0.62

The Master, Multiplied creates Dalek tokens whenever you copy a creature, and Determined Iteration converts that steady stream of artifact creatures into an exponentially growing army by the end of each combat step.

03
Feldon of the Third Path

Feldon of the Third Path

43.7% of decks · synergy 0.43

Feldon of the Third Path makes tapped, attacking tokens of creatures in your graveyard, and Determined Iteration turns each of those temporary copies into a permanent duplicate before they'd otherwise vanish — effectively making Feldon's ability twice as productive every turn.

04
Mishra, Eminent One

Mishra, Eminent One

36.6% of decks · synergy 0.35

Mishra, Eminent One generates Construct tokens as copies of your artifacts each combat, and Determined Iteration doubles the board state those Constructs build before the end step wipes them, threatening lethal damage far ahead of schedule.

05
The Jolly Balloon Man

The Jolly Balloon Man

22.8% of decks · synergy 0.22

The Jolly Balloon Man proliferates and generates tokens tied to +1/+1 counter synergies, and Determined Iteration scales that token production geometrically as long as the engine stays online.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Determined Iteration is a Commander card through and through — its payoff requires the kind of sustained, token-generating engine that only develops over a long multiplayer game. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, the card is far too slow and conditional to compete; no one is building around end-of-combat token doubling in a format defined by turn-one and turn-two kills. Oathbreaker is the one adjacent format where Determined Iteration could see real play, since planeswalker-based token strategies can feed it reliably. For everyone else, this is a 100-card singleton card, full stop.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Breath of FuryDetermined Iteration

Breath of FuryDetermined Iteration

Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Determined Iteration isn't currently available through this tool, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. Given its narrow but high-synergy Commander applications, it tends to hold a modest price — not a bulk rare, but not a format staple either.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.