Run in Naya with Amulet of Vigor and Realm Razer for a complete off-color-control lockdown
Posted By:
Rumblin-Slumm
(12/4/2010 3:12:24 PM)
Mimic Vat Allies AHHHHH!
Posted By:
Leonidus78
(12/12/2010 11:04:17 PM)
@ druka
You are completely correct. The Gideon Jura tokens still get exiled EOT so his first ability is useless (he won't be around to be attacked, so no requirement to attack left), but his second ability is still there, so mimic vat basically becomes a colorless as sas sinate or a 6/6 hasty creature every turn, less than optimal for something as potentially powerful as Gideon Jura, but better than getting yours removed, and bonus points if you stole your opponent's. This also has the interesting quality that it is the only card in Magic which can make planeswalker tokens, and one of three that can make land tokens (Soul Foundry and ~ with dryad arbor and Prototype Portal with any of the artifact lands).
Posted By:
frommerman
(1/11/2011 6:52:13 PM)
Question about this card, when you use it to bring in the creature copy, if the card has a kicker or multikicker, can the kicker still be played, or does this not consider it as "playing" the card like Isochron Scepter does
Posted By:
HitTheGoat
(2/3/2011 7:24:27 PM)
this card is pretty insane, kind of like isochron scepter but w/ creatures
good combo rite off the dome
Mimic Vat+ Kresh the Broodbraided and Force of Savagery Get +8/8 counters on Kresh every turn w/ the vat by keeping the 8/0 svage coming back, crazy lol
Posted By:
raadface
(2/18/2011 3:33:37 PM)
Gideon does remain a Planeswalker, but he's also a creature. The problem with imprinting him on the vat comes with the wording on the Vat itself.
Gideon is a Walker when he's put into the yard, not a creature. He stops being a creature as soon as he leaves the battlefield making him an illegal target.
Posted By:
PhyrexianAdvocate
(4/2/2011 5:13:36 PM)
@PhyrexianAdvocate: Mimic Vat works with cards that temporarily turn into creatures like Gideon Jura and Celestial Colonnade. There's no such thing as an "illegal target" for Mimic Vat because none of it's abilities actually target anything.
The rulings specifically address this sort of situation: "You may exile a noncreature card with Mimic Vat's first ability. For example, if a nontoken artifact that's become a creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Mimic Vat's first ability triggers and you may exile that card."
Posted By:
Talcos
(4/3/2011 1:34:19 PM)
This is the new combo card, anytime you see a powerful creature, there is always some dumb retard who puts a comment saying 'combo with mimic vat'
Posted By:
ninjaman98
(4/18/2011 4:24:38 AM)
In response to a few comments here the Mimic Vat would have no problem imprinting Gideon Jura if he is a creature when he hits the graveyard. The fact that he is also a planeswalker isn't a problem. Planeswalker is just a card type just like Land or Artifact. If an Artifact Creature or a Land that becomes a creature until end of turn hits the graveyard then it's a creature when it hits the graveyard, just like Gideon is until end of turn.
Read the second ability carefully. It doesn't make a copy of a creature. It makes a copy of the card that is exiled. Any card.
For another example if you were to use a Clone (or my preference: Phyrexian Metamorph) to copy a creature on the field and then your clone gets killed if you imprint it with the Mimic Vat your Clone is the card that gets exiled and so every token that the vat puts into pla... (see all)
Posted By:
Philbo_the_Happy_Halfling
(5/28/2011 10:00:47 AM)
run this in an ally deck for great joy! :D
Posted By:
iSlapTrees
(5/29/2011 1:36:31 PM)