Heat Shimmer 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.
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Official card text
Create a token that's a copy of target creature, except it has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, exile this token."
How it works : Heat Shimmer
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
No additional ruling has been published for this card.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Dualcaster Mage + Heat Shimmer
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature tokens with hasteInfinite magecraft triggers
- 1Cast Heat Shimmer by paying its mana cost, targeting a creature you control.
- 2Holding priority, cast Dualcaster Mage by paying
. - 3When Dualcaster Mage enters the battlefield, it triggers, copying Heat Shimmer, targeting Dualcaster Mage.
- 4Resolve the copy of Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of Dualcaster Mage.
- 5Repeat from step 3.
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#2
Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Heat Shimmer
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite magecraft triggers
- 1Cast Heat Shimmer by paying its mana cost, targeting a creature you control.
- 2Holding priority, cast Naru Meha by paying
. - 3When Naru Meha enters the battlefield, it triggers, copying Heat Shimmer, targeting Naru Meha.
- 4Resolve the copy of Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of Naru Meha.
- 5Put either Naru Meha into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- 6Repeat from step 3.
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#3
Spinerock Tyrant + Heat Shimmer
Infinite creature ETBInfinite Treasure tokensInfinite colored manaInfinite copies of creatures you control
- 1Cast Heat Shimmer by paying its mana cost targeting the creature that can recur spells.
- 2When you cast that spell, Spinerock Tyrant triggers, copying Heat Shimmer and choosing Spinerock Tyrant as its target.
- 3Resolve the copy of Heat Shimmer, creating a Spinerock Tyrant token.
- 4Resolve the original Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of the spell recursion creature.
- 5When that token enters, it triggers, returning Heat Shimmer from your graveyard to your hand.
- 6Repeat from step 1 one additional time, resulting in a total of five Spinerock Tyrants.
- 7Cast the spell that creates a Treasure token by paying its mana cost, targeting any creature.
- 8Each copy of Spinerock Tyrant triggers, copying that spell once for each Spinerock Tyrant you control.
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#4
Cormela, Glamour Thief + Storm-Kiln Artist + Heat Shimmer
Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETB
- 1Activate Cormela by paying and tapping it, adding
that can only be spent to cast instant and/or sorcery spells. - 2Cast Heat Shimmer by paying .
- 3Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 4Resolve Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of Cormela.
- 5Put the tapped Cormela into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- 6Cormela dies, triggering itself, returning Heat Shimmer from your graveyard to your hand.
- 7Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 8Repeat.
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#5
Bladewing the Risen + Heat Shimmer
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Cast Heat Shimmer by paying , creating a token copy of Bladewing with haste.
- 2Put the nontoken Bladewing from the battlefield into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- 3The Bladewing token's enter-the-battlefield ability triggers, returning Bladewing from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 4Put Bladewing from the battlefield into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- 5Bladewing's enter-the-battlefield ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 6Repeat from step 4.
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#6
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer + Combat Celebrant + Heat Shimmer
Infinite combat phasesInfinite damage
- 1Cast Heat Shimmer by paying , creating a token copy of Combat Celebrant.
- 2At the beginning of your combat phase, Brudiclad triggers, creating a 2/1 Phyrexian Myr creature token, then choosing to have all tokens you control become copies of the Combat Celebrant token.
- 3Declare one of the Combat Celebrant copy as an attacker, choosing to exert it as it attacks.
- 4The Combat Celebrant copy triggers, untapping all other creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 5Repeat from step 2.
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#7
Cormela, Glamour Thief + Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Heat Shimmer
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite magecraft triggers
- 1Activate Cormela by paying and tapping it, adding that can only be spent to cast instant and/or sorcery spells.
- 2Cast Heat Shimmer by paying .
- 3Birgi triggers, adding .
- 4Resolve Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of Cormela.
- 5Put the tapped Cormela into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- 6Cormela dies, triggering itself, returning Heat Shimmer from your graveyard to your hand.
- 7Repeat.
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#8
Vadrok, Apex of Thunder + Cloud of Faeries + Heat Shimmer + Snap
Cast a subset of spells in your graveyardInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite magecraft triggers
- 1Cast Vadrok for its mutate cost by paying
, merging it under Cloud of Faeries. - 2The Cloud of Faeries mutated creature's ability from Vadrok triggers, casting Heat Shimmer from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.
- 3Resolve Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of the Cloud of Faeries mutated creature with haste.
- 4The token copy of the Cloud of Faeries mutated creature triggers, untapping two lands you control.
- 5Cast Snap by paying , returning the nontoken Cloud of Faeries and Vadrok from the battlefield to your hand and untapping two lands you control.
- 6Cast Vadrok for its mutate cost by paying , merging it under the token Cloud of Faeries mutated creature.
- 7The token Cloud of Faeries mutated creature triggers once for each of its Vadrok abilities.
- 8Resolve one of these triggers, casting Heat Shimmer from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.
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Legal formats
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