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.
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.
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.
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This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from SOS — the lineup includes Showcase 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 #291 of *Secrets of Strixhaven*, the set that shipped alongside the April 2026 Secrets of Strixhaven release.
Card type: Sorcery — Lesson, color identity blue, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {4}{U}{U} (6 converted). Keyword abilities: Paradigm.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #8,398 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Gintas Galvanauskas. Rarix catalogs 17 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Gintas Galvanauskas
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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.
If the copied permanent is copying something else, then the token enters as whatever that permanent copied.
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.
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.
