Kami of Twisted Reflection
Creature — Spirit
Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #28735
Kami of Twisted Reflection is a two-mana 2/1 that lets you pay one blue to have a creature you control become a copy of another target creature you control until end of turn — a cheap, instant-speed clone effect stapled to a body. The cost is that it's temporary and requires two creatures on board, so it only pulls weight in decks that already flood the field or run dedicated clone synergies.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Kami of Twisted Reflection earns a slot in token-heavy or shapeshifter-tribal shells where copying your best creature at instant speed — in response to an attack or before a combat trick resolves — generates immediate value. It's too narrow for most generalist blue decks, which have access to permanent clone effects that don't evaporate at end of turn. In Pauper, where the card pool is constrained, the one-blue activation cost is genuinely competitive and creature-based combo decks can abuse the temporary copy to stack enters-the-battlefield triggers. Legacy and Vintage have no reason to look at it. The card's home is clearly in lower-powered Commander environments built around copying and tempo.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Kami of Twisted Reflection is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. That price is stable by definition: there's no demand spike coming for a narrow, temporary clone on a 2/1 body.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.