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Astral Dragon

Creature — Dragon6 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

Copy effects almost always point at creatures; this one deliberately does the opposite, restricting its target to a single noncreature permanent and then dragging it onto the battlefield twice with bodies attached. The result is a clone effect that thinks like a flicker payoff. Point it at your best enchantment, artifact, or planeswalker and you get two more of it, except each is also a 3/3 flying Dragon. The "in addition to their other types" clause is the load-bearing part of the design: the copies keep every ability of the original permanent, so a planeswalker copy arrives with its own loyalty and starts ticking, a mana rock copy still taps for mana, and each also swings in the air. Stacking a static value engine onto an evasive threat, doubled, is why the mana value runs as high as it does. Project Image fires on entry rather than as a cast ability, and that distinction does real work: any way to blink or reanimate the Dragon re-fires the doubling. The copies capture only the printed characteristics of the target, not counters or attached auras, so the question the card asks is which permanent's base design is worth duplicating rather than which one happens to be the most gussied up right now. Because it copies one permanent twice, the reward tracks how good your single best noncreature target is, not how wide your board runs.

Astral Dragon (clb)
CLB · #613rare
Pricing
Normal: $21.31
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Project Image — When this creature enters, create two tokens that are copies of target noncreature permanent, except they're 3/3 Dragon creatures in addition to their other types, and they have flying.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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