Duplicant
Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature.
As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.63
- EDHREC rank
- #2715
Duplicant exiles a creature on entry — no targeting restriction, no damage, just gone — and wears that creature's power and toughness for the rest of the game. Six mana is real, but unconditional exile removal stapled to a body that can get reanimated, flickered, or copied makes it one of the most abused utility artifacts in Commander.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Feldon of the Third Path
Feldon of the Third Path treats Duplicant as a repeatable removal engine: make a token copy at the end of any opponent's turn, exile their best creature, let the token vanish at end step, then do it again next turn. That loop is exactly why Duplicant shows up in over half of all Feldon lists.
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant dramatically reduces the cost of artifacts, and Duplicant is one of the highest-impact artifacts you can cheat into play for a discount — free exile removal off a commander ability is a difficult rate to beat.
Osgir, the Reconstructor
Osgir, the Reconstructor can bring Duplicant back from the graveyard and double it, meaning two separate exile triggers off a single activation — removing two threats while fielding two bodies.
Daretti, Scrap Savant
Daretti, Scrap Savant's ultimate and Welding Jar recursion lines make Duplicant easy to rebuy; in a deck already built around artifact loops, exiling a creature every time Duplicant re-enters is a consistent value engine rather than a one-shot answer.
Saheeli, the Gifted
Saheeli, the Gifted discounts Duplicant's six mana with her cost-reduction ability, and her token-copy effects let you trigger the imprint clause a second time — removing another creature for essentially free.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Duplicant earns its reputation: singleton means you can't lean on redundant spot removal, and exiling rather than destroying sidesteps indestructible threats, regeneration, and graveyard recursion all at once. The six-mana cost is offset by every blink, reanimate, or copy effect available in the format, making it a perennial staple in artifact-heavy and recursion-based builds. In Legacy and Vintage, Duplicant is legal but too slow — six mana buys far more efficient interaction in those formats, and it sees essentially no competitive play. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander case: the format rewards high-impact enters-the-battlefield effects, and Duplicant qualifies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.63 bulk tier
At $0.63, Duplicant is firmly bulk — widespread reprints have kept it cheap despite consistent Commander demand. It's a safe pickup at this price; nothing about its usage trajectory suggests it climbs meaningfully, but it also won't get cheaper.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.