First printed in Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (2025)
Creature — Dragon
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.
"That's not a dragon. Can't be. It's too small, isn't it?"
—Askar, Temur scout, last words
1/1
- Illustrated by
- Josu Solano
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (6)
- 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.
- 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.
- If the copied creature is copying something else, then Deceptive Frostkite enters as whatever that creature copied, with the listed exceptions.
- 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.
- If the copied creature has
in its mana cost, X is 0. - 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.
Prices
MTGO price: 1.14 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
12 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Bladewing the Risen + Deceptive Frostkite
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB: Deceptive Frostkite + Wispweaver Angel
- Infinite self-mill: Deceptive Frostkite + Mirror-Mad Phantasm
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Carnage, Crimson Chaos + Deceptive Frostkite
- Infinite card draw, Near-infinite creature ETB…: Anticausal Vestige + Cloudstone Curio + Deceptive Frostkite
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward + Deceptive Frostkite + Karmic Guide
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Deceptive Frostkite + Princess Yue + Wormfang Turtle
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Ao, the Dawn Sky + Deceptive Frostkite + Mortuary
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Deceptive Frostkite + Rakdos Joins Up + Starfield of Nyx
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Deceptive Frostkite + Opalescence + Rakdos Joins Up
