Echocasting Symposium 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
Target player creates a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
How it works : Echocasting Symposium
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The token created by Echocasting Symposium copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (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 it is a Vehicle, it is not crewed.
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- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Each spell with paradigm has the Lesson subtype. The Lesson subtype appears on instants and sorceries and has no inherent rules meaning. Other effects (such as the learn ability from the original Strixhaven release) may refer to it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Once a spell with paradigm has resolved, it doesn't matter what happens to the card in exile. Even if the card leaves exile, the delayed triggered ability will still trigger during each of your first main phases, and the copy will still be created.
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- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Any enters abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters. Any "as [this creature] enters" or "[this creature] enters with" abilities of the copied permanent will also work.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied permanent is a token, the token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
Paradigm creates a delayed triggered ability that triggers at the beginning of each of your first main phases for the rest of the game. When that ability resolves and the copy is created, you can choose not to cast the copy. In that case, the copy will cease to exist the next time state-based actions are checked. The delayed triggered ability will still trigger again at the beginning of your first main phase on your next turn regardless.
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- #7· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied permanent is copying something else, then the token enters as whatever that permanent copied.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Timestream Navigator + Echocasting Symposium
- 1Cast Echocasting Symposium by paying
, creating a token copy of Timestream Navigator and exiling Echocasting Symposium. - 2If you don't have the city's blessing, the Timestream Navigators will give you the city's blessing.
- 3Activate the oldest Timestream Navigator by paying
, tapping it and putting it from the battlefield onto the bottom of your library, causing you to take an extra turn after this one. - 4Move to your next turn. At the beginning of your precombat main phase, Echocasting Symposium's paradigm ability triggers, causing you to cast a copy of it from exile. Resolve the copy, creating a token copy of Timestream Navigator.
- 5Repeat from step 3.
Echocasting Symposium + Archaeomancer + Time Warp
- 1Cast Time Warp by paying its mana cost, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 2Move to your next turn. At the beginning of your precombat main phase, Echocasting Symposium's paradigm ability triggers, causing you to cast a copy of it from exile.
- 3Resolve the copy, creating a token copy of Archaeomancer
- 4When the Archaeomancer token enters, it triggers, returning Time Warp from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Repeat.
Echocasting Symposium + Phage the Untouchable
- 1Cast Echocasting Symposium by paying , causing an opponent to create a token copy of Phage and exiling Echocasting Symposium.
- 2When the Phage token enters, it triggers, causing its controller to lose the game.
- 3During your next turn, at the beginning of your precombat main phase, Echocasting Symposium's paradigm ability triggers, causing you to cast a copy of it from exile. Resolve the copy, causing an opponent to create a token copy of Phage.
- 4Repeat from step 2.
Echocasting Symposium + Temporal Manipulation + Archaeomancer
- 1Cast Temporal Manipulation by paying its mana cost, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 2Move to your next turn. At the beginning of your precombat main phase, Echocasting Symposium's paradigm ability triggers, causing you to cast a copy of it from exile.
- 3Resolve the copy, creating a token copy of Archaeomancer
- 4When the Archaeomancer token enters, it triggers, returning Temporal Manipulation from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Repeat.
Echocasting Symposium + Eternal Witness + Time Warp
- 1Cast Time Warp by paying its mana cost, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 2Move to your next turn. At the beginning of your precombat main phase, Echocasting Symposium's paradigm ability triggers, causing you to cast a copy of it from exile.
- 3Resolve the copy, creating a token copy of Eternal Witness
- 4When the Eternal Witness token enters, it triggers, returning Time Warp from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Repeat.
Echocasting Symposium + Time Warp + Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
- 1Cast Time Warp by paying its mana cost, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 2Move to your next turn. At the beginning of your precombat main phase, Echocasting Symposium's paradigm ability triggers, causing you to cast a copy of it from exile.
- 3Resolve the copy, creating a token copy of Pinnacle Monk
- 4When the Pinnacle Monk token enters, it triggers, returning Time Warp from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Repeat.
Echocasting Symposium + Capture of Jingzhou + Archaeomancer
- 1Cast Capture of Jingzhou by paying its mana cost, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 2Move to your next turn. At the beginning of your precombat main phase, Echocasting Symposium's paradigm ability triggers, causing you to cast a copy of it from exile.
- 3Resolve the copy, creating a token copy of Archaeomancer
- 4When the Archaeomancer token enters, it triggers, returning Capture of Jingzhou from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Repeat.
Echocasting Symposium + Temporal Manipulation + Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
- 1Cast Temporal Manipulation by paying its mana cost, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 2Move to your next turn. At the beginning of your precombat main phase, Echocasting Symposium's paradigm ability triggers, causing you to cast a copy of it from exile.
- 3Resolve the copy, creating a token copy of Pinnacle Monk
- 4When the Pinnacle Monk token enters, it triggers, returning Temporal Manipulation from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Repeat.
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