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Mirrorworks

Artifact

Whenever another nontoken artifact you control enters, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that artifact.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Mirrodin Besieged
Price
$5.28
EDHREC rank
#3002
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Mirrorworks card art
Mirrorworks turns every artifact you cast into a two-for-one — pay two colorless and you get an instant-speed token copy, which means a second Myr Retriever, a second Sol Ring, a second whatever matters most in your engine. The cost is five mana to land and two mana per trigger, which is real, but any artifact commander that plays more than a handful of rocks gets full value by the midgame. The Most Dangerous Gamer in particular treats it as a core piece, not a luxury.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
The Most Dangerous Gamer

The Most Dangerous Gamer

47.1% of decks · synergy 0.47

The Most Dangerous Gamer hunts for artifacts and treasures constantly, and Mirrorworks doubles every artifact ETB trigger in the chain — each copy is another piece of board presence without spending a card. It appears in nearly half of all The Most Dangerous Gamer lists precisely because the engine never runs out of targets.

02
Saheeli, the Gifted

Saheeli, the Gifted

42.0% of decks · synergy 0.40

Saheeli, the Gifted already reduces artifact costs and rewards going wide with artifacts, so Mirrorworks slots in as a persistent doubler that scales with every spell she helps you cast. The two mana per trigger is almost irrelevant when Saheeli is shaving costs elsewhere.

03
Jhoira, Ageless Innovator

Jhoira, Ageless Innovator

36.6% of decks · synergy 0.35

Jhoira, Ageless Innovator cares deeply about historic permanents and generates value on each one, so Mirrorworks effectively doubles her draw and counter triggers by adding a second copy of each historic artifact that hits the field. The combination turns a steady stream of artifacts into an exponential advantage engine.

04
Karn, Legacy Reforged

Karn, Legacy Reforged

38.9% of decks · synergy 0.30

Karn, Legacy Reforged wants as many artifacts on the field as possible to generate mana, and Mirrorworks doubles the artifact count without doubling the card investment. More artifacts means more mana from Karn's ability, and more mana feeds back into more Mirrorworks triggers.

05
Iron Man, Titan of Innovation

Iron Man, Titan of Innovation

30.5% of decks · synergy 0.29

Iron Man, Titan of Innovation rewards building and deploying equipment and artifact creatures, and Mirrorworks ensures every significant piece enters play with a backup copy. The redundancy matters for a strategy that leans on specific artifacts staying on the board.

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

Commander is the clear home for Mirrorworks — five mana is acceptable in a 40-life format where artifact strategies have the ramp to support it, and the two-mana copy trigger compounds across a long game in ways that break parity fast. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees no meaningful play; the formats move too fast for a five-mana do-nothing-until-triggered permanent to matter. Modern is the closest non-Commander case, but artifact combo decks there have moved toward lower-to-the-ground redundancy rather than five-mana enablers. Oathbreaker is legal and occasionally relevant in artifact-heavy shells, though the compressed game length makes the payoff less reliable than in Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Strionic Resonator copies triggered abilities rather than the artifacts themselves, which is narrower but costs a fraction of the price and hits many of the same ETB triggers in artifact decks. Lithoform Engine is a more expensive mana investment per activation but copies spells and abilities across multiple categories, making it a more flexible if less artifact-focused replacement for what Mirrorworks does — neither fully replicates the token-copy angle, but both slot into similar shells.

Price Context

Current price

$5.28 mid tier

At $5.28, Mirrorworks sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough that it's not a barrier for most artifact builds. Demand is consistent across several popular artifact commanders, which keeps the price stable rather than trending downward.

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