Progenitor Mimic

Creature — Shapeshifter

You may have Progenitor Mimic enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield except it gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature isn't a token, create a token that's a copy of this creature."

Discussion (44)

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Brokkos Buried in this Jungle

6 days ago

This looks pretty powerful, have my upvote.

I've tried building Brokkoli once or twice, but unfortinately couldn't find a version I really liked. But a card you should definitely try out is Spawnwrithe . You already do have a cloning theme, and this fits right in. The same goes for Progenitor Mimic .

I wish youball the best with the deck, and maybe I'll give Brokkos another shot one day.

FormOverFunction on The Vision of the Simic

2 weeks ago

Great theme! I’ve had a ton of fun with Progenitor Mimic in my Watermark - Simic deck, ESPECIALLY with the Master Biomancer . +1 for sure.

rdean14 on Card creation challenge

3 weeks ago

I really like that green has stuff like Progenitor Mimic , Scute Swarm , Spawnwrithe , Giant Adephage , and Permeating Mass , as well as Rhys the Redeemed . But I want a card like Brood of Cockroaches , Endless Cockroaches to be like that and Ogre Slumlord .

Cockroach Infestation

Creature - Insect

When a nontoken creature dies, at the beginning of the next end step, create a token copy of Cockroach Infestation.

1/1

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This is designed to basically limit how combos using it can work. Also, it'll be amazing in a devotion deck, as every token is 3 devotion to black.

I'd like to see a White card that uses the Battalion/Mentor mechanic, and also creates token copies of itself, like Legion Warboss , making copies of itself, and monowhite.

Mcat1999 on Kinnan, The Simic Domri

3 weeks ago

Interesting... Fierce Empath tutors a creature with CMC 6 or greater into my hand. Notable searches would be Brutalizer Exarch , Progenitor Mimic and Deadeye Navigator , although this is CMC 6 or greater so I could grab a Worldspine Wurm if I so chose. However what's very interesting is I can immediately grab Woodland Bellower who, upon ETB after being hardcast, tutors a creature with CMC 3 or less directly onto the battlefield. There aren't many options here; Predator Ooze whom honestly while I love, I can cut easily. There's Reclamation Sage , Biomancer's Familiar , but perhaps most importantly Selvala, Heart of the Wilds .

So now the question is do I cut Predator Ooze , It That Betrays and Spawnsire of Ulamog for Fierce Empath and Woodland Bellower ?

I'm thinking cut Predator Ooze for Fierce Empath and cut It That Betrays for Woodland Bellower . I think keeping Spawnsire of Ulamog is a good idea, as if boardstates begin getting out of control I can always get him into play and copy it for some Annihilator 6 or 9 or 12. Something really disgustingly brutal, especially if I already have out Archetype of Endurance for protection.

Mcat1999 on Kinnan, The Simic Domri

3 weeks ago

Omniscience_is_life, lol I just wheeled out a Darksteel Colossus , Progenitor Mimic 'd onto it and Vizier of Many Faces onto Progenitor Mimic . TLDR I now have 7x Darksteel Colossus .

Wheeled out a Selvala, Heart of the Wilds and an Earthshaker Giant , then the following turn Worldspine Wurm and Deadeye Navigator .

Blinked Earthshaker Giant twice to get all of my creatures +6/+6, turning Worldspine Wurm into a 21/21 which Selvala, Heart of the Wilds now taps for 22 mana.

Blinked Earthshaker Giant another 11 times to get +39/+39 on my army of Darksteel Colossus , making all 7x of them 50/50.

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Mcat1999 on Omniscience_is_life

3 weeks ago

Okay that combo sounds spicy! I'd love to learn it so I can playtest against your deck sometime.

Combos in my Kinnan deck!

Firstly, it's very important to get an opening hand with multiple manarocks and one or two lands. You can usually drag out your turns and be unassuming if you even take a one-land hand, as all you need are 2 lands to win the game. Truth be told, you can win the game with 0 lands if you get a Mana Crypt or even if you junk a land for a Mox Diamond into a Sol Ring . Either way, your goal is to land Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy on turn 2 with lands, allowing you to tap your rock for 2x mana to play a second rock.

For example, I love opening with a fetch land into Rimewood Falls as it's the only land that is forced to enter tapped in my deck. Then I can play a basic, tutor out Breeding Pool and shock it, or tutor out a Tropical Island . Seriously, T1 Rimewood Falls is an amazing start for the deck.

But again, you can drag the deck out to turn 3, turn 5, even turn 7. If opponent's see you doing nothing and failing to produce anything, they generally lay off you. Either way, your goal is to get one or two rocks out before Kinnan.

For example, suppose you have a Forest and an Island in play and you were fortunate enough to land a turn 1 Sol Ring . Kinnan turns your Sol Ring into which you can now spend into a Simic Keyrune which now pays for an Arcane Signet with which you can now pass the turn. And now you've got 9 mana sitting on the field when you untap on turn 3. That's some serious power. That's how you ramp into the Skyclave Relic or The Great Henge or Thran Dynamo super quickly.

Regardless, onto combos!

Brutalizer Exarch is the unsung hero of the deck. He ETBs and tutors out to the top of the deck. You want to find Deadeye Navigator . Wheel Kinnan - more on that in a moment - and pop DN into play. Deadeye now Soulbonds with Brutalizer.

Blink Brutalizer. Tutor out Nyxbloom Ancient and wheel into play. You've now used 16 mana, but you can easily have 21+ mana in play so don't worry about this.

It is very, very important not to tap out. You never want to tap out with Kinnan. Only put 7 mana in at once. If you have 16 mana you can produce, only produce 7 of it.

It is also incredibly important to never, under any circumstances, dump all mana into Kinnan at once. If you do, you'll fail. If I have 21 mana, that's 3x activations. If I announce I'm putting three activations on the stack and he's hit with a Path to Exile , I am absolutely screwed for the turn. However, if I announce I am putting 1x activation in, my opponent may still respond for the Path to Exile but I can now say "In response, taps rocks I activate Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy "

Now, even if Kinnan dies or is exiled, I at least got SOMETHING. In my example above, what happens if I do happen to get lucky and wheel into a Deadeye Navigator ?

Soulbond to Kinnan and pay and now he's no longer the original target of Path to Exile . ;)

Regardless, we aren't here to protect Kinnan! We are here to win! In the way Simic does best! CHEATING!!

Okay, so Brutalizer Exarch is in play. You tutored Deadeye Navigator to the top. You wheeled and blinked Brutalizer to find Nyxbloom Ancient and wheeled again. Jesus man. So that's like 23 mana. But like I said, you can produce mana exceedingly easily.

Hopefully you have at least some sources left open. If not, pass and hope your state remains in tact. Usually it will as most players typically need time to find answers and do not readily have them available at all times during the game.

Assuming you can go off, tap what you can and wheel again. Remember that Nyxbloom Ancient gives you 3x the mana, and Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy adds +1 of whatever type you produced to your pool. So if you tap a single Simic Cluestone for , you now produce 4x . So leaving open just 1 source of and one source of is usually enough for at least 1x wheel at this point. If you have several sources open, you're golden.

You need to stack your mana now. If you are tight on mana, wheel and prey to the Lords of Chaos that you get one of your 11 Clone creatures. Oh yes. Eleven. If not, blink Brutalizer Exarch and cheat one into play.

Progenitor Mimic is great and flashy, Mercurial Pretender is amazing to constantly blink in and out by himself, Vesuvan Shapeshifter is wonderful for upkeep changes, Vizier of Many Faces is perfect as he can be cast from the graveyard.

Copy Nyxbloom Ancient and enjoy adding 10x mana for each rock.

So where's this combo? Well this is the setup for the outrageous mana production you want to achieve. I try to get 3x Nyxbloom Ancient s in play, which yields 27x mana for lands and 28x mana for rocks thanks to Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 's +1 ability. Oh, and a playset yields 81 - 82 mana ;) A single Mana Crypt gives you now 162 mana at this point... So yeah...

Most Nyxbloom Ancient s I've had in play at a single time were 5x. That's 243 on a land and 243 on a Simic Cluestone . Simic Signet is especially fun because it'll double both types of mana.

Okay, so where the hell is this combo??

Glad you asked.

Got your absurd mana production online? Good. Let's begin.

• Brutalizer Exarch
• Deadeye Navigator blinks it
• Tutor Woodfall Primus to the top
• Wheel
• Woodfall Primus lands
• Destroy ;) noncreature ;) permanent
• Blink Deadeye Navigator
• Soulbond to Woodfall Primus
• Blink Primus and destroy every single land, artifact, enchantment and Planeswalker in play.

What if you have The Great Henge in hand, though? And you want to blow the boardstate up for free?

• Brutalizer, Navigator, Blink, Primus, Blink
• Tutor out Gigantoplasm
• Wheel
• Gigantoplasm copies Woodfall Primus
• Cast The Great Henge
• Pay into Gigantoplasm
• It becomes a 0/0 and dies
• PERSIST TRIGGER
• Comes back
• Copies Woodfall Primus
• -1/-1 counter :(
• The Great Henge is super effective!
• +1/+1 counter :)
• They cancel out
• Destroy noncreature permanent
• Repeat. Oh, don't forget to draw your cards ;)

Alright alright, what about creatures though??

• Brutalizer, Deadeye, blink, Meteor Golem , wheel
• Blink Deadeye Navigator
• Soulbond to Meteor Golem
• Oops no creatures

Ooh, spicy. Any more?

Yes.

• Brutalizer, Deadeye, blink, Amphin Mutineer , wheel
• Amphin enters, exiles a creature and Soulbonds to Deadeye Navigator
• Soulbond to Amphin Mutineer
• Exile everything

Wait but they get 4/3 Sala---

• Blink Deadeye Navigator
• Soulbond to Brutalizer Exarch
• Blink Brutalizer
• Tutor Thorn Mammoth
• Wheel
• Soulbond to Mammoth
• Thorn Mammoth fights a 4/3 Salamander and wins
• Blink Thorn Mammoth to reset the damage marked on him. Wipe the Salamanders off the face of the planet.

Fine, but how do you plan on winning?

• Brutalizer, Deadeye, blink, tutor Craterhoof Behemoth , End-Raze Forerunners or Earthshaker Giant
• Shenanigans ensue
• Big bois are the biggest of bois
• Swing for lolololethalololol

Alright but what if your creatures don't have haste so you can't swing in this turn?

• Janky combo-mombo stuff
• Blink Brutalizer and find yourself some clones, then start blinking the the clones or original copies of Craterhoof Behemoth and / or End-Raze Forerunners . They have haste, so they can swing the same turn. Be sure to choose who you are blinking and keep it steady. If you are blinking your Spark Double , keep doing so, so that your Craterhoof Behemoth doesn't reset after being an 168/168 or something. Make sure you have several copies in play that you are building up so you can take down all opponents in one swing.

It got a turn 2 win by getting Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy out super early thanks to a Mana Crypt and a Tropical Island which got me a Arcane Signet or something. Next turn I was able to pay for Basalt Monolith which goes infinite as it taps for but requires only to untap. So I am +1 each activation.

Spent 7x on a Chromatic Orrery which now means I produce infinite mana of any color, meaning I can wheel an infinite number of times. If I didn't like what I got (Such as a Craterhoof Behemoth too early), I can elect to not bring him out since it's a MAY ability.

And bingo-bango-bongo I won the game on turn 2.

As for Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy , his ability can be a bit costly. That's why we run Biomancer's Familiar to get his ability from down to down to down to and eventually down to just if you'd like, but I personally find this to be too much. Stopping at is wonderful as it saves a Clone and also gives you use for mana. Otherwise that mana is worthless.

Also Illusionist's Bracers , Lithoform Engine and Rings of Brighthearth are stupidly overpowered.

So yeah, that's the deck in a nutshell. :D!

And at no point do you even need Nyxbloom Ancient . It's more of a wincon if you want to go out flashy. Typically you win by good old-fashioned overrunning with trample and bodies.

It's surprisingly politics-heavy, as you can make deals to not blow their stuff up in exchange for protection from attacks or whatever. Like I can say that I'll take out a problematic Rhystic Study or Smothering Tithe by blinking or wheeling a Reclamation Sage , but I don't want to be attacked for a turn.

Stuff like that.

MistaMint on Desecration Ritual (Yarok EDH)

1 month ago

Apologies for the double tag. It cut off the second part of my comment for some reason, both times. Was saying I also recently did Progenitor Mimic at end of turn with Savage Summoning and paired it with wurm

MistaMint on Desecration Ritual (Yarok EDH)

1 month ago

TheJakeWithHumanHair Thanks. Deck is a lot of fun to play, not much fun go play against. And remember, it's not about how much the card costs, it's about how you use it