If the creature that dies is an instant or sorcery card that's been manifested, Mimic Vat may have a nonpermanent card exiled. You can't create a token that's a copy of a nonpermanent card. No token is created in this case.
Mimic Vat
If a melded permanent dies and triggers Mimic Vat's triggered ability, both of its component cards are exiled. As Mimic Vat's second ability resolves, its controller chooses one of those cards to make a token copy of.
Exiling the card as the first ability resolves is optional. If you choose not to exile it, or you can't exile it because the card has somehow left the graveyard before the ability resolves, the ability simply doesn't do anything as it resolves. Any card currently exiled by Mimic Vat remains exiled.
Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $3.66. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.20 and $8.81 across 89 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from LCC — the lineup includes Borderless alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #115 of *The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander*, the set that shipped alongside the November 2023 The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander release.
Card type: Artifact, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {3} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Imprint.
Legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #2,224 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Chris Seaman. Rarix catalogs 372 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Chris Seaman
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