First printed in Jurassic World Collection (2023)
Enchantment
Whenever a nontoken creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
"Life breaks free. It expands to new territories and crashes through barriers. Painfully, maybe even dangerously. But, uh, well there it is."
—Ian Malcolm
- Illustrated by
- Inkognit
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-the-battlefield abilities of the copied token will trigger when the new token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the copied token will also work.
- Populate doesn't target the creature token you're copying. You choose that creature token as you're taking the populate action. You can choose any creature token you control. If a spell or ability causes you to create a creature token and then instructs you to populate, you may choose to copy the token you just created, or you may choose to copy another creature token you control.
- If you control no creature tokens when you populate, nothing will happen.
- The new token doesn't copy whether the original token is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any noncopy effects that have changed its power, toughness, color, and so on.
- The new creature token copies the characteristics of the original token as stated by the effect that created the original token.
- If you choose to copy a creature token that's a copy of another creature, the new creature token will copy the characteristics of whatever the original token is copying.
Prices
MTGO price: 2.66 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
63 combos, the most popular first:
- Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield: Ashnod's Altar + Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Life Finds a Way
- Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield: Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Goblin Bombardment + Life Finds a Way
- Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield: Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Life Finds a Way + Phyrexian Altar
- Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield: Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Blasting Station + Life Finds a Way
- Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield: Altar of Dementia + Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Life Finds a Way
- Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield: Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Life Finds a Way + Thermopod
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite copies of nonartifact creature tokens you control…: Animar, Soul of Elements + Cloudstone Curio + Life Finds a Way
- Infinite blinking of some creatures, Infinite creature tokens…: Felidar Guardian + Helm of the Host + Life Finds a Way
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Doubling Season + Life Finds a Way + Oblivion Ring
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Anikthea, Hand of Erebos + Life Finds a Way + Oblivion Ring + Parallel Lives
