---
name: "The Apprentice's Folly"
mana_cost: "{2}{U}{R}"
cmc: 4
type_line: "Enchantment — Saga"
colors: []
color_identity: ["R", "U"]
keywords: []
set: "PWOE"
set_name: "Wilds of Eldraine Promos"
collector_number: "200s"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Tuan Duong Chu"
oracle_id: "f45542a0-0d49-4b56-9c3e-663ff8d0529a"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/the-apprentices-folly-pwoe"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# The Apprentice's Folly
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{U}{R}` (CMC: 4)
- **Type:** Enchantment — Saga

## Oracle Text
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Choose target nontoken creature you control that doesn't have the same name as a token you control. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it isn't legendary, is a Reflection in addition to its other types, and has haste.
III — Sacrifice all Reflections you control.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Minion Reflector](/printing/minion-reflector-ala.md) — Artifact
2. [The Cloning of Shredder](/printing/the-cloning-of-shredder-tmt.md) — Enchantment — Saga
3. [Battle for Bretagard](/printing/battle-for-bretagard-cmm.md) — Enchantment — Saga
4. [City of Death](/printing/city-of-death-who.md) — Enchantment — Saga
5. [Pure Reflection](/printing/pure-reflection-inv.md) — Enchantment
6. [Tempestra, Dame of Games](/printing/tempestra-dame-of-games-tmc.md) — Legendary Creature — Elemental Illusion

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Wilds of Eldraine Promos (PWOE) #200s
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Tuan Duong Chu
- **Total Printings:** 3 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2023-09-01)* If something becomes a copy of the token, the copy is also a Reflection in addition to its other types, has haste, and isn't legendary.
- *(2023-09-01)* Except for the listed exceptions, the token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that permanent is itself copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether that permanent is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
- *(2023-09-01)* If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
- *(2023-09-01)* If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied, with the stated exceptions.
- *(2023-09-01)* Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the creature will also work.