Clone

Creature — Shapeshifter

You may have this enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Combos

• Biovisionary + Clone

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Oldschool 93/94	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (44)

legendofa on Technically still blockable

1 month ago

rtdfjyghc Some fun thoughts here. First off, I overlooked that Dormant Sliver prevents our dude from attacking, so Guard Duty for everyone! Second, creature type restriction vs. numbers restriction. Hmm. The creature type already has a very narrow window, so maybe needing 12 creatures on hand might in fact be the way to go. Will have to tinker with that one, since the defense relies on having Clone effects anyway, and the simple solution would be to just have even more Clones. For Ghost of Ramirez DePietro, the window would be power exactly equal to 3 with Wrecking Ball Arm and Hedgewitch's Mask, and toughness =< 2. That window can be hit with Kudo, King Among Bears + Banners Raised or something. So that would be -1 Lifecraft Engine, and switch Harmonious Archon for those two cards. So no net change in number of cards needed to defend, but small increase in complexity of defense. Using that same logic for Hexmark Destroyer as the attacker, it would be about the same complexity, or maybe a little less, but a huge jump in the number of cards needed to defend. Will have to meditate and tinker.

Keep the thoughts coming!

Rhadamanthus on Last_Laugh

6 months ago

Copiable values are derived from the text printed on the object (for a card, that should be obvious; for a token or stack copy, it's whatever text it was created with), modifications from other copy effects (e.g. a copy of a Clone of a Bear Cub will be another Bear Cub), modifications from being face-down, and the effect of any "as...enters" or "as...is turned face up" abilities that set any of the object's characteristics. That's all laid out in CR 707.2 with some additional details in the sub-rules of that section if you want to see it for yourself.

Rhadamanthus on Do I keep it?

7 months ago

It depends. As written, if you don't do anything else, then the tokens in this example will get exiled because they aren't creature tokens. However, if you spend the mana to turn them into creatures then they'll be ok.

A copy effect copies everything written on the original object, plus the result of any copy effects that it happens to be under (e.g. a copy of a Clone of Runeclaw Bear will be another Bear, not another Clone), and that's it. No other effects being applied to the original object get copied.

In your example this means the copies of Lavaclaw Reaches created by Blade of Selves will just be regular, un-animated Reaches. If you leave them un-animated then The Master, Multiplied won't stop them from being exiled at end of combat, but if you activate the ability on any of them to turn them into creatures then The Master's ability will apply and they won't get exiled.

Rhadamanthus on Princess Yue + Vesuva

7 months ago

Good question, the base creature would be a Roil Elemental. Copy effects also create new copiable characteristics for other copy effects to read from. The simple example I like to use is if a Clone copies Runeclaw Bear, then another copy of that Bear-Clone will also be a plain old Bear.

Neotrup on Xu-Ifit and reanimating Clones (Layers, …

8 months ago

Since Clone will be entering with no abilities, it doesn't have the ability that makes itself a copy. If another effect would make it a copy (such as Infinite Reflection) it would enter as a copy with no abilities, but without such an effect it will enter as a 0/0 with no abilities.

Chaospyke on Xu-Ifit and reanimating Clones (Layers, …

8 months ago

Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist can reanimate creature cards but causes them to lose abilities. My understanding of layers is that since clone is the highest layer, Clone should be able to enter as a copy of another creature, then loses its abilities after becoming a copy

plakjekaas on Thinking about how we evaluate …

8 months ago

You can't Chord of Calling or Green Sun's Zenith for a Regrowth. Most green decks are built to leverage The Great Henge more than, say, Whirlwind of Thought. That's why Eternal Witness has become massively more popular in EDH than Regrowth ever could. You can Ephemerate, Reanimate, Heat Shimmer or Clone your Eternal Witness, while Regrowth has a lot less ubiquitous synergy pieces.

Weirdly enough, Snapcaster Mage never became as popular, even though the utility is very similar; a 2/1 human creature that grabs something from your graveyard to reuse. I think if Snapcaster were more popular, Regrowth would be as well.

Neotrup on What happens if I cast …

9 months ago

You're clones will always enter as copies of Agent of Treachery. What Rhadamanthus said is largely correct, however, if you choose to apply Infinite Reflection's replacement effect first, Clone will now be entering as Agent of Treachery and no longer have it's own ability, so that replacement effect no longer applies and you end up with Agent of Treachery. If you apply Clone's effect first, you'll then have to apply Infinite Reflection's ability as it's still relevant, and end up with Agent of Treachery.