Part 3 of my *Weird Things You Can Do in Magic: The Gathering* series digs
into a strange corner of how tokens get their names.

## Tokens have names too

Cards have names, and so do tokens. Usually a token's name comes from its
creature type. That means a handful of tokens share both a creature type and a
name with real cards. There are six and a half of them: Assembly-Worker,
Dragon Egg, Goblin, Wizard, Nightmare, and the Shapeshifter and Illusion
halves of a couple of split identities.

## The weird bit

Because a token can share a name with a real card, you can do something daft
with a name-referencing effect. Cast **Eradicate** on an Assembly-Worker token
made by Urza's Factory, and it will let you search that token's owner's hand,
graveyard, and library for the real Assembly-Worker creature card and exile
every copy. A token, which normally leaves no trace, becomes a way to hunt
down the actual cards.