<p>No.</p>

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  <p>607.2a If an object has an activated or triggered ability printed on it that instructs a player to exile one or more cards and an ability printed on it that refers either to “the exiled cards” or to cards “exiled with [this object],” these abilities are linked. The second ability refers only to cards in the exile zone that were put there as a result of an instruction to exile them in the first ability.</p>
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<p>There are no cards in the exile zone, so there is nothing to copy.</p>

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2015-05-26T01:29:31.433Z
I'd mention something about not being able to have a cake and eat it too, but that expression never made any sense to me.
ikegami
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2015-05-26T22:00:44.490Z
the original quote was "... eat your cake and have it too" some how it got reversed while retaining the original  meaning!
esoterik
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ikegami
<p>If I am playing a Sharuum the Hegemon EDH deck, can I let my commander go to the graveyard, exile it under <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mimic%20Vat">Mimic Vat</a> and then put it into the command zone but still have it imprinted, or does the fact that that is a replacement effect make it so it isn't imprinted.</p>

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Can I imprint my Commander onto Mimic Vat, and still take it back to the Command Zone?
BolasStone
# Can I imprint my Commander onto Mimic Vat, and still take it back to the Command Zone?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-05-26)

If I am playing a Sharuum the Hegemon EDH deck, can I let my commander go to the graveyard, exile it under [Mimic Vat](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mimic%20Vat) and then put it into the command zone but still have it imprinted, or does the fact that that is a replacement effect make it so it isn't imprinted.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-05-26. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

No.

> 607.2a If an object has an activated or triggered ability printed on it that instructs a player to exile one or more cards and an ability printed on it that refers either to “the exiled cards” or to cards “exiled with [this object],” these abilities are linked. The second ability refers only to cards in the exile zone that were put there as a result of an instruction to exile them in the first ability.

There are no cards in the exile zone, so there is nothing to copy.

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I'd mention something about not being able to have a cake and eat it too, but that expression never made any sense to me.  
> **username_2**: the original quote was "... eat your cake and have it too" some how it got reversed while retaining the original  meaning!  

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