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Dire Mimic

Artifact — Treasure

Flash
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.
{3}: This artifact becomes a Shapeshifter artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
Price
$0.12
EDHREC rank
#19850
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Dire Mimic card art
Dire Mimic enters as a copy of any nonland permanent you control with the highest mana value — no casting cost paid, no conditions met, just a clone on arrival. Serra Paragon this is not; where that card rewards careful graveyard work, Dire Mimic asks nothing and delivers immediately.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Dire Mimic earns its keep — the format's high-mana-value permanents mean the copy you get on entry is almost always something impactful, and token or flicker strategies can retrigger it repeatedly. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes against a field of interaction so dense that a vanilla enters-the-battlefield effect rarely survives long enough to matter. Pauper is the other realistic home: common-legal clone effects are scarce, and Dire Mimic fills that gap cheaply in creature-heavy shells.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.12 bulk tier

At $0.12, Dire Mimic sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying for the effect, not the card. Bulk rares with genuine combo applications tend to spike on discovery and settle; at this price, picking up copies now costs almost nothing.

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