
Printings
Flare of Duplication
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 119
Oracle Text
You may sacrifice a nontoken red creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- June 7, 2024
If the spell has damage divided as it was cast, the division can't be changed (although the targets receiving that damage still can). The same is true of spells that distribute counters.
Source: wotc - June 7, 2024
The copy will have the same targets as the spell it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
Source: wotc - June 7, 2024
If you copy a spell, you control the copy. It will resolve before the original spell does.
Source: wotc - June 7, 2024
If the spell that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy will have the same mode. A different mode can't be chosen.
Source: wotc - June 7, 2024
The copy is created on the stack, so it's not "cast." Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger.
Source: wotc - June 7, 2024
The controller of a copy can't choose to pay any alternative or additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any alternative or additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy.
Source: wotc - June 7, 2024
If the spell that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Kozilek's Command does), the copy will have the same value of X.
Source: wotc
Price History

To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.