Mocking Doppelganger
Creature — Shapeshifter
Flash
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it has "Other creatures with the same name as this creature are goaded." (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $4.05
- EDHREC rank
- #5223
Mocking Doppelganger enters as a copy of any creature an opponent controls — flash speed, any target, no restriction on power level — and the only real cost is that opponents get a 3/3 Salamander Warrior token courtesy of Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist's forced-donation trigger. In decks that want to weaponize that token handout, that downside is the point.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist
Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist forces each opponent to create a 3/3 Salamander token if they control fewer Salamanders than anyone else, and Mocking Doppelganger is the engine piece that turns that punishment loop into a political weapon — copy your biggest threat, hand out a Salamander, repeat.
Firkraag, Cunning Instigator
Firkraag, Cunning Instigator goads creatures and grows on combat damage to players, so Mocking Doppelganger doubling up on an opponent's best attacker means you get the goaded swing and a copy of whatever is threatening the table most.
Red Death, Shipwrecker
Red Death, Shipwrecker wants creatures with evasion and high power crewing and attacking, and Mocking Doppelganger lets the deck clone whatever the scariest attacker at the table is mid-combat rather than committing to a fixed threat.
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One donates creatures to opponents and profits from their dying or attacking, and Mocking Doppelganger can copy a gifted creature before the handoff — or copy an opponent's best creature to immediately gift that copy back as a second donation target.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mocking Doppelganger is a Commander card through and through — its value scales with a full multiplayer board where there are always threatening creatures worth copying at flash speed. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes with Clone effects that cost less or do more in a faster, two-player context, so it sees essentially no competitive play there. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer structure, which means the political and tempo angles translate cleanly, but the smaller deck size and faster games compress how often the flash trigger fires at a critical moment. Anywhere outside those formats it's not legal, which is fine — Mocking Doppelganger was designed for the chaos of a four-player table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.05 cheap tier
At $4.05, Mocking Doppelganger sits at the high end of the budget tier — more than a bulk rare, less than a staple. Given its narrow homes and relatively recent print, that price reflects genuine demand from a specific archetype rather than broad Commander staple status, so it holds as long as Gor Muldrak and Firkraag-style decks stay popular.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.