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Mirror Gallery

Artifact

The "legend rule" doesn't apply.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Betrayers of Kamigawa
Price
$12.32
EDHREC rank
#8052
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Mirror Gallery card art
Mirror Gallery removes the legend rule entirely, which means running multiples of any legendary permanent — including your commander — without sacrificing any of them. The cost is three mana and a card slot that does nothing until you have a reason to break the legend rule; Gisela, Blade of Goldnight and Deadpool, Trading Card are exactly the commanders that give you that reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Deadpool, Trading Card

Deadpool, Trading Card

20.3% of decks · synergy 0.19

Deadpool, Trading Card wants Mirror Gallery because his whole engine runs on having multiple copies of himself — the more Deadpools on board, the more triggers fire when any of them die, so the legend rule is a hard ceiling on the strategy and Mirror Gallery removes it outright.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Mirror Gallery is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card in practice. In 60-card formats the legend rule rarely matters enough to justify a three-mana artifact that does nothing else — if you're running multiples of a legendary creature in Legacy or Modern, you're already playing them as redundant threats, not as a swarm that needs to coexist. Commander is where the card earns its slot: it powers clone-based strategies, lets you stack legendary creatures with strong enters-the-battlefield effects, and serves as a combo enabler in decks built around legendary synergies. Oathbreaker can make use of it for the same clone-stack reasons, though the format's smaller card pool narrows the opportunities.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There isn't a true budget replacement for Mirror Gallery — it's the only card that blanket removes the legend rule for all permanents. Sakashima of a Thousand Faces comes closest at a similar or lower price point depending on printing, letting your legendary creatures ignore the rule among themselves, though it only covers creatures and requires Sakashima to be on board.

Price Context

Current price

$12.32 mid tier

At $12.32, Mirror Gallery sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion but not a budget-breaker for established decks. It's a narrow card with a small target audience, so the price reflects steady demand from clone and legendary-matters builds rather than broad appeal.

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