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    Paradox Shaper // Omit Variables

    Creature — Octopus Wizard // Sorcery

    Paradox Shaper // Omit Variables

    Illustrated by Mark Zug

    EDHREC Rank #20,789
    At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature isn't prepared, it becomes prepared. 2 generic mana : Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. // Mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

    Rulings (15)

    Being prepared isn't a copiable value. If a permanent becomes a copy of a prepared creature, it won't be prepared. That permanent will have the alternative characteristics, though, and some other effect could cause it to become prepared later.

    Aug 21, 2026

    Creating a copy of a creature's prepare spell in exile ignores copy exceptions applied to that creature that would affect the copiable values of that spell. For example, say a player casts Croaking Counterpart (a sorcery that says "Create a token that's a copy of target non-Frog creature, except it's a 1/1 green Frog") targeting Diviner of Victory. The token copy of Diviner of Victory will enter prepared as a 1/1 green Frog creature, but the copy of Unwind History in exile will still be a blue sorcery. The copy of Unwind History won't be green, a creature, or a Frog, and it won't have power or toughness.

    Aug 21, 2026

    As an effect causes a creature with a prepare spell to become prepared (including effects that state that a creature "enters prepared"), that creature's controller creates a copy of that creature's prepare spell in exile. That copy remains in exile for as long as that permanent is on the battlefield and is prepared. That creature's controller may cast that copy as long as it remains in exile. As they cast it, that creature stops being prepared.

    Aug 21, 2026

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