Token

Kithkin Soldier token.

A token is a permanent that is not represented by a regular card with a casting cost. Usually, but not always, tokens are creatures (It is possible to use cards such as Followed Footsteps and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker to create noncreature tokens).

Normally tokens can exist only on the battlefield. If a token leaves the battlefield and goes to another game zone, it can't change zones again, and it will be there only briefly before ceasing to exist as a state-based effect.

Examples

• Teysa, Orzhov Scion has the ability: "Whenever another black creature you control dies, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield." "Dies" means precisely "is put into a graveyard from the battlefield" (rule 700.6). If you have a black creature token that gets destroyed, it will go to the graveyard, trigger Teysa's ability and put it on the stack, then disappear.
• Momentary Blink reads in part: "Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control." If this spell is used on a creature token, it will be exiled, but it cannot come back to the battlefield and so stays in the exile zone. It will cease to exist when state-based effects are next checked.

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Token specific creature types

Some creatures named in the legal subtype-list only appear on tokens.

• Camarid tokens are created by Homarid Spawning Bed and Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII.
• Caribou tokens are created by Caribou Range.
• Citizen tokens are created by Icatian Crier, Icatian Town and Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII.
• Deserter tokens are created by Kjeldoran Home Guard.
• Germ tokens are created by living weapons.
• Graveborn tokens are created by Balduvian Dead and Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper. Graveborn Muse doesn't have the subtype Graveborn.
• Orb tokens are created by Phantasmal Sphere. Note that artifacts like Chaos Orb don't have the Orb subtype.
• Pentavite tokens are created by Pentavus.
• Pincher tokens are created by the Summoning Station. Pincher Beetles doesn't have the subtype.
• Prism tokens are created by Diamond Kaleidoscope, but not by Pentad Prism or Prismatic Circle.
• Reflection tokens are created by Pure Reflection and Spirit Mirror, but not by the Kami of Twisted Reflection.
• Sand (Warrior) tokens are created by Hazezon Tamar and Dune-Brood Nephilim, but for example not by Choking Sands or Sandstorm. Sand Golem is not a Sand Creature.
• Saproling are produced by many green-aligned fungus and/or plant-based cards.
• Serf tokens are produced by Sengir Autocrat.
• Splinter tokens are created by Splintering Wind, but not by Splinter, Splinter Twin or Bone Splinters.
• Survivor tokens are created by Varchild's War-Riders under opponent's control. Note that Auriok Survivors, Riptide Survivor and Survivor of the Unseen don't have the survivor subtype.
• Pink Giant Teddy Bear tokens are created by Water Gun Balloon Game.
• Tetravite tokens are created by Tetravus.
• Triskelavite tokens are created by Triskelavus.

Trivia

• The first non-creature token was the enchantment token copies of Imperial Mask that can be given to your teammates.
• The second non-creature token was the artifact token named Gold that is produced by Gild from Born of the Gods.
• Intangible Virtue is a Lord-type enchantment that gives +1/+1 and vigilance to creature tokens.
• Tokens were featured as rules card 4 of 9 in the Magic 2011 set.

External links

• List of tokens on MagicCards.Info