Dude, if you copy a creature with haste, this card is devastating when kicked. Hellkite Charger anyone?! Egads.
But yes, I agree with another poster that the true power here is allies. If you can ramp the mana, this is an instant win with the right allies on the battlefield. Halimar Excavator will mill about a bazillion cards if this goes off kicked. Something as simple as an Umara Raptor can be a game winning swing when combined with this.
5/5 for flexibility and game-winning potential in the right deck.
Posted By:
Gaussgoat
(5/21/2010 8:02:10 AM)
Oh, hello there Bogardan Hellkite. I better clone you 5 times and ping the opponent for 25.
Posted By:
GruesomeGoo
(5/27/2010 5:48:13 PM)
copy kazuul warlord, with kicker it gives all allys +30/+30 and allys that gain +1/+1 as standard get +35/+35 instead, almost no surviving this on the first assult
Posted By:
rattius
(5/31/2010 1:04:32 PM)
I play this card as a one of in {W}{U} Control. It just wins vs. Allies (and anything with ETB effects).
Some favorites:
Turntimber Ranger: 5 7/7's and 25 2/2's.
Malakir Bloodwitch: Opponent loses 25 life.
Kazuul Warlord: 5 28/28's.
Halimar Excavator: Mill 125 cards.
Ondu Cleric: Gain 125 life.
Captain of the Watch: 5 7/7's and 15 6/6's, all with Vigilance.
Overgrown Battlement: 5 0/4 walls that each have {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}{G} to your mana pool.
I even cast this on a Terastodon once, and made a ton of elephants, while leaving my opponent, who had already killed three of his own, with only a single Forest to his name.
Posted By:
NinjaJeff
(6/27/2010 2:18:22 PM)
Hugely fun and flavourful. A ridiculous bomb if it goes off: I remember kicking this onto Avenger of Zendikar for 5 5/5s and about 80 plant tokens. Or the time I gained some silly life total off my opponent's ondu cleric. Or recently, when, down at 5 life against my brother's vamps, I kicked it onto his malakir bloodwitch. A 50-point life swing ended that game pretty fast. That it requires 9 mana to do this has prevented it playing any serious role in constructed, but maybe that will change once alara rotates out of standard and the game slows down considerably. That advantage of this spell - over other game-ending bombs - is that in wins you games you were completely losing, games that were otherwise unwinnable. There isn't that much around that can do that, apart from maybe baneslayer, iona, and this new leviathan from m11.
Posted By:
cloneffect
(7/7/2010 4:33:53 AM)
This + Mirror Gallery + 1 Brothers Yamazaki = 6 Brothers Yamzaki with Haste each being 4/3 with Bushido1 =
24 Damage (All at once and if unstopped). Just in case you're a fan of the Samurai.
Posted By:
AXER
(7/19/2010 7:32:13 PM)
Just for knowledge. A kicked Halimar Excavator with no other allies is a 180 card mill (6 allies on the field * 6 times activated * 5 allies entering). Likewise, a kicked Ondu Cleric is 180 life gain. Hagra Diabolist? 180 life loss to opponent. This is a fun card :D
Posted By:
mtheoryninja
(7/29/2010 4:17:54 PM)
This weekend I used Harabaz Druid to cast a kicked Rite of Replication on Turntimber Ranger. It was something like 30 wolves, and a total of six 8/8 Rangers. Madness.
Posted By:
Guest513736147
(8/16/2010 10:00:41 AM)
@AXER >> That isn't right. Each Brothers Yamizaki gives all other Brother's Yamizaki +2/+2, so with 6 of them in play (with a Mirror Gallery) they would each get +10/+10 total making them all 12/11, bushido 1 with haste and 72 total damage if unblocked.
Posted By:
Guest1162619373
(8/29/2010 12:29:25 AM)
Oh, and if you copy a land, you will get five copies of the land. It's up to you to pay the mana to activate them into creatures.
Posted By:
redhaiku
(9/12/2010 10:36:29 AM)