Like most "clone" cards, t's great, but a little situational, depending on you already having a decent creature out. Only being able to choose form your creatures is a downside - you can't copy your opponent's creatures, but that's what Evil Twin is in the same set for - but you also gain instant speed, lower CMC and flashback, which make it very playable. And, regarding my opponent's creatures, I've always prefered to Mind Control them anyway.
Right now I'm using it in my upcoming Faerie deck, in which it usually fills the role of Spellstutter Sprite #5-8.
Posted By:
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
(11/7/2011 4:23:23 PM)
Never let this card sit in your graveyard if an opponent has a Chancellor of the Spires that wants to multiply itself an infinite number of times.
Posted By:
ApotheosisCM
(12/19/2011 2:15:28 PM)
There's a lot of clone effects in standard right now between this, Phyrexian Metamorph and Phantasmal Image. This one's best though since it only costs 1/10th the price of the others.
Come to think of it Back from the Brink and Essence of the Wild are kind of clone-y too. Somebody at WOTC must have really liked Clone back in the day.
Posted By:
TPmanW
(12/22/2011 8:59:23 PM)
Endless Ranks of the Clones.
Posted By:
Salient
(2/4/2012 8:19:36 PM)
I can't believe this is still a $0.70 rare, this is absolutely obscene with Drogskol Captains and Dungeon Geists
Posted By:
JackThompson
(2/25/2012 11:46:26 PM)
Archaeomancer
Posted By:
DarkTowerEX
(7/6/2012 4:26:29 AM)
This is disgustingly good with the new RtR mechanic Populate. I will be genuinely shocked if Bant Token Control isn't a thing.
Just imagine this on a Thragtusk. 8 Mana for 10 health and two 5/3s that become 3/3s after they leave the battlefield.
Oh, and did I mention that with those two creatures:
1. There's one that can abuse Blink effects for the ETB/LBT triggers?
2. The other can abuse Populate effects for ETB trigger... and spawn even more Thragtusks?
Now consider all of this with Parallel Lives and/or RtR's new Growing Ranks (Populate at the beginning of your upkeep).
Brb, my inner-Johnny needs to change his pants.
Posted By:
TiredTofu
(9/11/2012 2:00:14 AM)
Ok so this is gonna be a fun one. I've already got myself working on a U/W/G populate deck with this card, Talrand, Sky Summoner, Trostani, Parallel Lives, Druid's deliverance, Sundering Growth, Call of the Conclave and a bunch of other instant/sorceries that help make tokens/fix your mana pool.
Can you imagine the uber? You make lots of tokens, gaining life and having more tokens come into play though Talrand, gaining life via Trostani, cloudshifting the important creatures like Thragtusk and Centaur Healer. You cackling counter part one of those two, getting beefy tokens(two at a time with parallel lives), plus two drakes(thx to parallel lives again), then swing for a ****-ton.
WIth the only 5 cost creature in the deck being Thragtusk, and plenty of activated abilities to eat up your extra mana you've got, there's a serious chance this deck could be insanely brutal and very fast. Nothing like a turn 3 Talrand/Trostani to make your opponen... (see all)
Posted By:
Vakyoom
(9/17/2012 3:57:13 PM)
This little guy is about to get a LOT better with populate.
Posted By:
Lord_of_Gelectrodes
(9/18/2012 8:52:33 PM)
I find myself wondering how preferable this could be to Dance of Many for purposes of populate. It's a little more expensive than the Dance to cast, meaning you might have to wait a little longer, but you don't have an upkeep cost to worry about. Then again, it's also a little less flexible in that you can't copy a creature you don't control. Of course, copying enemy creatures is probably a Plan B or Plan C, rather than initial plan.
Posted By:
SkyknightXi
(10/10/2012 10:00:16 AM)