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Spitting Image

~$0.23 low · ~$4.88 high

Multicolor. Sorcery

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Spitting Image

Commander 2021 #229 · Illustrated by Jim Nelson

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Cheapest copy

~$0.23

Non-foil · Commander Anthology Volume II #166

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Highest TCGplayer price

~$4.88

Foil · Eventide #162

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6 prices from $0.23 to $4.88. Every price is in the printings table below.

TCGplayer market prices in USD, updated October 14, 2026. Each price is for one printing and one finish.

Oracle text

Create a token that's a copy of target creature.

Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Spitting is the customary greeting between a creature and its magical impostor.

All 5 printings of Spitting Image

PrintingRarityNon-foilFoilCardmarket (EUR)My collection
Commander Legends #453
Commander Legends
cmr #453· 2020rare· Cardmarket €0.19
rare$0.27No foil printing€0.19
Commander Anthology Volume II #166
Commander Anthology Volume II
cm2 #166· 2018rare· Cardmarket €0.17
rare$0.23No foil printing€0.17
Commander 2016 #236
Commander 2016
c16 #236· 2016rare· Cardmarket €0.20
rare$0.25No foil printing€0.20
Eventide #162
Eventide
eve #162· 2008rare· Cardmarket €0.32 · €3.51 foil
rare$0.30$4.88€0.32€3.51 foil

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Card details

First printed
2008
Printings
5
Mana value
6
EDHREC rank
#11,747 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Keywords
Retrace
Artist
Jim Nelson

Rulings (5)

  1. 2008-08-01

    Casting a card by using its retrace ability works just like casting any other spell, with two exceptions: You're casting it from your graveyard rather than your hand, and you must discard a land card in addition to any other costs.

  2. 2008-08-01

    When a retrace card you cast from your graveyard resolves, fails to resolve, or is countered, it's put back into your graveyard. You may use the retrace ability to cast it again.

  3. 2008-08-01

    A retrace card cast from your graveyard follows the normal timing rules for its card type.

  4. 2008-08-01

    If the active player casts a spell that has retrace, that player may cast that card again after it resolves, before another player can remove the card from the graveyard. The active player has priority after the spell resolves, so they can immediately cast a new spell. Since casting a card with retrace from the graveyard moves that card onto the stack, no one else would have the chance to affect it while it's still in the graveyard.

  5. 2008-08-01

    As the token is created, it checks the printed values of the creature it's copying — or, if that creature is itself a token, the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield — as well as any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won't copy counters on the creature, nor will it copy other effects that have changed the creature's power, toughness, types, color, or so on.

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