
Printings
Deceptive Frostkite
Card Information
Type: Creature — Dragon
Mana Cost:
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 19
Oracle Text
Flying You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control with power 4 or greater, except it's a Dragon in addition to its other types and it has flying.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- April 4, 2025
Any enters abilities of the copied creature will trigger when Deceptive Frostkite enters. Any “as [this creature] enters” or “[this creature] enters with” abilities of the copied permanent will also work.
Source: wotc - April 4, 2025
Deceptive Frostkite copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else, with the listed exceptions (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
Source: wotc - April 4, 2025
If the copied creature is copying something else, then Deceptive Frostkite enters as whatever that creature copied, with the listed exceptions.
Source: wotc - April 4, 2025
If the copied creature is a token, Deceptive Frostkite copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token, with the listed exceptions.
Source: wotc - April 4, 2025
If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
Source: wotc - April 4, 2025
You can choose not to have Deceptive Frostkite enter as a copy of another creature. If you do, it will just be a 1/1 Dragon with flying.
Source: wotc
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