This clone can surprise people by morphing into the best creature on board and then reset itself on upkeep to do it again. You probably want to play a few other morph creatures in your deck to mask Vesuvan Shapeshifter, otherwise your playgroup will catch on quickly. The real power of the card is being a land when you need one.
Glasspool Mimic isn’t the most inherently powerful clone, but it’s so easy to squeeze into a deck at such a low opportunity cost. It’s best evaluated as a 2-mana way to copy an ETB effect on board. Phantasmal Image clones something at a discounted rate, but it probably isn’t sticking around long thanks to the “illusion” sacrifice effect. But cascade gives you more options of what to clone, and flash sets the whole package up nicely. It might look like a downside that Sakashima's Protege can only clone permanents that entered the turn you cast it. I suggest naming yourself friend with Zndrsplt's Judgment. Foes have to bounce one of their creatures back to hand while friends copy one of their own creatures. Zndrsplt’s Judgmentīattlebond’s friend or foe mechanic is a great political tool in Commander. Sakashima's Will grabs one of your opponent’s creatures and then turns everything you control into the same creature for the turn. Sakashima the Impostor doesn’t quite make the list, but the character lends their name to this and other copy effects. The ability to flicker itself on upkeep lets you combo it with cantripping enchantments or sagas. Estrid’s InvocationĮstrid's Invocation isn’t as open-ended as Mirrormade, but it outperforms in enchantment-heavy decks. Copy Artifact and Copy Enchantment do a fine job, but Mirrormade is more versatile. Mirrormade is a frontrunner for blue permanents that copy artifacts or enchantments. It can churn out copies of your best token creatures every time you cast a spell. Song of the Worldsoul is one of the more engine-like populate enablers. It’s like an Unbreakable Formation card with an attached token clone. Rootborn Defense is a decent mass- protection instant that also copies a creature token. I wanted to throw all the white EDH players a bone with a few populate cards. I’m also skipping cards that only copy themselves, like Giant Adephage and Wedding Ring. I’m looking specifically at cards that clone something on the battlefield, either by becoming a copy of that permanent or by creating a new copy (usually a token).Ĭards like The Mimeoplasm and Scion of the Ur-Dragon that clone permanents in other zones won’t be included. You’ll hear players say things like “what’s the Clone of this set?” There are tons of clones in Magic, so I have narrow it down a bit. This term traditionally refers to shapeshifter creatures that enter the battlefield as a copy of another permanent, but “cloning” can also refer to effects that create token copies of an already-existing permanent.ĭifferent versions of these effects are now printed nearly every release. The term “clone” is Magic slang for a card that copies another card, named after Alpha’s original Clone. Glasspool Mimic | Illustration by Johan Grenier ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], etc.Įdit: Cranial Plating doesn't have a combat damage trigger but is a shoe in for any kind of black equipment deck as it represents a massive amount of damage. There are actually a lot of equipment that care about when a creature connects so you could lean into equipment if you wanted. Esper also has a massive amount of artifact synergies so finding Swords of X & Y, cheating their equipment cost, and copying them is pretty easy. Kamiz is worded such that you can give one of your creatures equipped with a Sword of X & Y double strike even if they have protection from an Esper color because Kamiz "chooses" and does not "target" for that ability which gets around protection.
I'd really suggest using ] as your commander and running the Sword of X & Ys as well since they also trigger on combat damage and give evasion.
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