Spitting Image Price
5 printings · 5 sets · first printed 2008
Spitting Image has been printed 5 times across 5 sets, first in 2008 and most recently in 2021. Right now the cheapest printing is Commander Anthology Volume II #166 at $0.23, while the most expensive is Eventide #162 at $0.30. The median across 5 priced printings is $0.27. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 5x, including dedicated reprint sets like Commander 2021, Commander Legends.
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Every Spitting Image Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commander Anthology Volume II #166 (R) Cheapest | 2018 | $0.23 | — |
| Commander 2016 #236 (R) | 2016 | $0.25 | — |
| Commander 2021 #229 (R) | 2021 | $0.27 | $0.03 |
| Commander Legends #453 (R) | 2020 | $0.27 | — |
| Eventide #162 (R) | 2008 | $0.30 | $0.04 |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)
Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 5 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
5 PrecedentsCasting 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.
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.
A retrace card cast from your graveyard follows the normal timing rules for its card type.
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.
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.