Oltec Matterweaver 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
Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one — • Create a 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature token. • Create a token that's a copy of target artifact token you control.
Complete guide
Oltec Matterweaver is a versatile Human Artificer that turns every creature spell into an opportunity for reinforcement. Whether you need a fresh body on the field or a duplicate of your most powerful artifact token, this card ensures your board state grows with every cast.
Dual Utility on Cast
The ability triggers specifically when you cast a creature spell, meaning it happens long before that creature enters the battlefield. You must choose between creating a basic 1/1 Gnome artifact creature token or copying an artifact token you already control. If you choose the copy mode, you must have a legal target artifact token to cast the spell; otherwise, you must choose the first mode.
The Resolution Process
Once you cast a creature spell, the Matterweaver's ability goes on the stack on top of that spell. The ability resolves first, regardless of whether the original creature spell is countered or eventually enters the battlefield. If you are copying a token, the new token copies only the base characteristics defined by the effect that created the original token. It ignores counters, temporary power/toughness changes, and any Auras or Equipment attached to the original.
Strategic Considerations
It is important to remember that 'enters-the-battlefield' (ETB) abilities of the copied token will trigger normally. This makes copying artifact creature tokens with strong utility very powerful. However, be careful: if your opponent removes the target artifact token in response to the trigger, the ability will fizzle and you will not get a token at all.
Interaction examples
Oltec Matterweaver
Solemn SimulacrumYou have Oltec Matterweaver on the battlefield and cast Solemn Simulacrum. Oltec Matterweaver's ability triggers. You choose the first mode to create a 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature token. The Gnome is created first, then your Solemn Simulacrum resolves and enters the battlefield, allowing you to search for a basic land.
Roaming Throne
GnomeSuppose you control a token that is a copy of Roaming Throne (named 'Human'). You cast a creature spell. Oltec Matterweaver triggers twice because of the Roaming Throne's ability. For the first trigger, you choose the second mode, targeting the Roaming Throne token. As the copy enters, you choose a creature type. Now you have two Thrones, and subsequent creature casts will trigger the Matterweaver even more times!
If you cast Solemn Simulacrum and wish to use the second mode of Oltec Matterweaver to copy an artifact token, the target must already be on the battlefield. You cannot use the Matterweaver to copy the Solemn Simulacrum itself because the Simulacrum is still a spell on the stack when the ability triggers, and it is not a token.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Oltec Matterweaver
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Oltec Matterweaver’s ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The new token copies the original characteristics of the target token as stated by the effect that created the target token and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else; see below). It doesn’t copy whether the target token 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, and so on.
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- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied token has
in its mana cost, X is 0. (Most tokens don’t have a mana cost unless they’re copying something else.)Card named in this ruling
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied token is copying something else, then the new token enters the battlefield as whatever that token copied.
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- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied token 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 token will also work.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Shrieking Drake + Oltec Matterweaver
- 1Cast Shrieking Drake by paying
. - 2Oltec Matterweaver triggers, creating a copy of any Treasure or Gold token you control.
- 3When Shrieking Drake enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
- 4Activate any Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, or any Gold by sacrificing it, adding .
- 5Repeat.
Delney, Streetwise Lookout + Oltec Matterweaver + Whitemane Lion
- 1Cast Whitemane Lion by paying
. - 2Oltec Matterweaver triggers twice, creating two copies of a Treasure token you control.
- 3When Whitemane Lion enters the battlefield, it triggers twice, returning itself and another creature with mana value 2 or less that can be cast using colored mana from the battlefield to your hand.
- 4If needed, activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding one mana of any color.
- 5Repeat step 4 one additional time if you do not have enough mana to cast the other creature returned to your hand in step 3.
- 6Cast the other creature returned to your hand in step 3 by paying its mana cost.
- 7Oltec Matterweaver triggers twice, creating two copies of a Treasure token you control.
- 8Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
Oltec Matterweaver + Whitemane Lion + Mondrak, Glory Dominus
- 1Cast Whitemane Lion by paying .
- 2Oltec Matterweaver triggers, creating two token copies of any Treasure or Gold token you control.
- 3When Whitemane Lion enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
- 4Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, or two Golds by sacrificing them, adding .
- 5Repeat.
Oltec Matterweaver + Whitemane Lion + Anointed Procession
- 1Cast Whitemane Lion by paying .
- 2Oltec Matterweaver triggers, creating two token copies of any Treasure or Gold token you control.
- 3When Whitemane Lion enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
- 4Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, or two Golds by sacrificing them, adding .
- 5Repeat.
Oltec Matterweaver + Whitemane Lion + Exalted Sunborn
- 1Cast Whitemane Lion by paying .
- 2Oltec Matterweaver triggers, creating two token copies of any Treasure or Gold token you control.
- 3When Whitemane Lion enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
- 4Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, or two Golds by sacrificing them, adding .
- 5Repeat.
Oltec Matterweaver + Whitemane Lion + Elspeth, Storm Slayer
- 1Cast Whitemane Lion by paying .
- 2Oltec Matterweaver triggers, creating two token copies of any Treasure or Gold token you control.
- 3When Whitemane Lion enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
- 4Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, or two Golds by sacrificing them, adding .
- 5Repeat.
Oltec Matterweaver + Kor Skyfisher + Mondrak, Glory Dominus
- 1Cast Kor Skyfisher by paying .
- 2Oltec Matterweaver triggers, creating two token copies of any Treasure or Gold token you control.
- 3When Kor Skyfisher enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
- 4Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, or two Golds by sacrificing them, adding .
- 5Repeat.
Oltec Matterweaver + Kor Skyfisher + Anointed Procession
- 1Cast Kor Skyfisher by paying .
- 2Oltec Matterweaver triggers, creating two token copies of any Treasure or Gold token you control.
- 3When Kor Skyfisher enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
- 4Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, or two Golds by sacrificing them, adding .
- 5Repeat.
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