Display of Power — ruling 1

Display of Power's first ability only functions on the stack. It can still be copied from your graveyard, your hand, or any other zone.

Display of Power — ruling 2

If you copy multiple spells with Display of Power, you can put the copies on the stack in any order.

Display of Power — ruling 3

If you cast Display of Power, you can, at most, make one copy of each instant and sorcery spell on the stack. It's not possible for one Display of Power to copy the same spell multiple times.

Display of Power — ruling 4

The copies will have the same targets as the spells they're copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. The new targets must be legal. If, for any target, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).

Display of Power — ruling 5

The copies are created on the stack, so it's not "cast." Creating the copies won't cause abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell to trigger.

Display of Power — ruling 6

If a spell that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose different ones.

Display of Power — ruling 7

If a spell that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy has the same value of X.

Display of Power — ruling 8

You can't choose to pay any additional costs for a copied spell. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too.

Display of Power : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Display of Power is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

Official card text

This spell can't be copied. Copy any number of target instant and/or sorcery spells. You may choose new targets for the copies.

How it works : Display of Power

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1June 16, 2023· Wizards of the Coast
Display of Power's first ability only functions on the stack. It can still be copied from your graveyard, your hand, or any other zone.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#2June 16, 2023· Wizards of the Coast
If you copy multiple spells with Display of Power, you can put the copies on the stack in any order.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#3June 16, 2023· Wizards of the Coast
If you cast Display of Power, you can, at most, make one copy of each instant and sorcery spell on the stack. It's not possible for one Display of Power to copy the same spell multiple times.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#4June 16, 2023· Wizards of the Coast
The copies will have the same targets as the spells they're copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. The new targets must be legal. If, for any target, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
No other card is named in this ruling.
#5June 16, 2023· Wizards of the Coast
The copies are created on the stack, so it's not "cast." Creating the copies won't cause abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell to trigger.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#6June 16, 2023· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose different ones.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#7June 16, 2023· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy has the same value of X.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#8June 16, 2023· Wizards of the Coast
You can't choose to pay any additional costs for a copied spell. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#9June 16, 2023· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell has damage divided as it was put onto the stack, the division can't be changed, although the targets receiving that damage still can. The same is true of spells that distribute counters to targets.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#10June 16, 2023· Wizards of the Coast
Any choices made as a spell resolves won't have been made yet once it's copied. Any such choices will be made separately as the copy resolves.
No other card is named in this ruling.