Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker 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
Haste: Create a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Complete guide
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker is one of the most iconic legendary creatures in Magic: The Gathering history, known for his ability to multiply your forces instantly. This Goblin Shaman brings speed and utility to the table, turning your best nonlegendary creatures into a temporary army.
What Kiki-Jiki Does
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker has Haste, meaning he can use his activated ability the same turn he enters the battlefield. His ability allows you to tap him to create a token that is a copy of any nonlegendary creature you control. This token gains Haste, so it can attack or use its own tap abilities immediately, but you must sacrifice it when the next end step begins.
How the Ability Resolves
When you activate the ability, you choose a legal target. Upon resolution, a token enters the battlefield copying the printed characteristics of that creature. If the original creature has 'enters the battlefield' triggers, the new token will trigger them. The token is a separate permanent; it does not copy counters, Auras, or temporary power buffs from the original. At the beginning of the next end step, a delayed triggered ability goes on the stack to sacrifice that specific token.
Common Mistakes
A frequent error is trying to copy a Legendary creature; Kiki-Jiki specifically specifies 'nonlegendary.' Additionally, remember that if you copy a creature that is currently a copy of something else (like a creature affected by a clone effect), the token will be a copy of whatever that creature is currently copying. Finally, note that if the token is blinked or leaves the battlefield and returns, it is a new object and will not be sacrificed by the original delayed trigger.
When to Play It
Kiki-Jiki is best utilized during your pre-combat main phase to maximize the Haste granted to the token for an attack. However, if you activate his ability during an opponent's end step, the 'next end step' won't occur until the end of your own turn, allowing you to keep the token for a much longer duration.
Interaction examples
Solemn SimulacrumWith Solemn Simulacrum on the battlefield, you tap Kiki-Jiki to create a copy. The Solemn Simulacrum token enters, triggering its ability to let you search for a basic land and put it onto the battlefield tapped. During your end step, you sacrifice the token, which triggers its second ability, allowing you to draw a card.
Roaming ThroneIf you control Roaming Throne and have chosen 'Goblin' as its type, Kiki-Jiki's ability is still an activated ability, not a triggered one, so the Throne does not double the creation of tokens. However, if you use Kiki-Jiki to copy the Roaming Throne (which is nonlegendary), you now have two Thrones. If you then play a creature with an enters-the-battlefield trigger of the chosen type, that ability will trigger two additional times (three times total) because you control two Thrones.
CopyIf you use Kiki-Jiki to create a token (represented by a Copy token) of a creature, and then use another effect to make a new permanent a copy of that token, the new permanent will have Haste. Crucially, because the new permanent was not created by Kiki-Jiki's ability directly, it will not be sacrificed during the end step.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature (except that the copy also has haste) and nothing else (unless it's copying a creature that's a token or that's copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether the creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and/or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on. Most notably, if the target creature isn't normally a creature, the copy won't be a creature.
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- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature has
in its mana cost, X is 0.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If a copied creature is copying something else, the token you create will use the copiable values of the target creature. In most cases, it will just be a copy of whatever that creature is copying.
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- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If a copied creature is a token that isn't a copy of something else, the copy copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created it.
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- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this permanent] enters the battlefield" or "[this permanent] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the copied creature card will also work.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
If another creature becomes a copy of, or enters the battlefield as a copy of, the token, that creature will copy the creature card the token is copying, except it will also have haste. However, you won't sacrifice the new copy at the beginning of the next end step.
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- #7· Wizards of the Coast
If Kiki-Jiki's ability creates multiple tokens due to a replacement effect (such as the one Doubling Season creates), you'll sacrifice each of them.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts
- 1Activate Kiki-Jiki by tapping it, creating a token copy of Zealous Conscripts with haste.
- 2When the Zealous Conscripts token enters, it triggers, untapping Kiki-Jiki
- 3Repeat.
Conspicuous Snoop + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Goblin Recruiter
- 1Cast Goblin Recruiter by paying
. When it enters, it triggers, searching your library for Kiki-Jiki and putting it on top of your library. - 2Activate Conspicuous Snoop using Kiki-Jiki's ability by tapping it, creating a token copy of Conspicuous Snoop with haste.
- 3Repeat step 2 using the Conspicuous Snoop token.
Combat Celebrant + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
- 1Activate Kiki-Jiki by tapping it, creating a token copy of Combat Celebrant with haste.
- 2Proceed to your combat step.
- 3Declare 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.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Helm of the Host
- 1At the beginning of your combat phase, Helm of the Host triggers, creating a non-legendary copy of Kiki-Jiki.
- 2Activate the untapped non-legendary Kiki-Jiki by tapping it, creating a token copy of itself.
- 3Repeat step 2.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Village Bell-Ringer
- 1Activate Kiki-Jiki by tapping it, creating a token copy of Village Bell-Ringer with haste.
- 2When the Village Bell-Ringer token enters, it triggers, untapping all creatures you control.
- 3Repeat.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Felidar Guardian
- 1Activate Kiki-Jiki by tapping it, creating a token copy of Felidar Guardian with haste.
- 2When the Felidar Guardian token enters, it triggers, blinking Kiki-Jiki.
- 3Repeat.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Delina, Wild Mage
- 1Declare Delina as an attacker.
- 2Delina triggers, creating at least one nonlegendary token copy of Kiki-Jiki.
- 3Activate a Kiki-Jiki by tapping it, creating a copy of the nonlegendary Kiki-Jiki.
- 4Repeat from step 3.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Thornbite Staff + Goblin Bombardment
- 1Activate Kiki-Jiki by tapping it, creating a token copy of any nonlegendary creature you control with haste.
- 2Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing the creature token.
- 3The token dies, triggering Kiki-Jiki, untapping Kiki-Jiki.
- 4Resolve the Goblin Bombardment ability, dealing 1 damage to any target.
- 5Repeat.
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