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 (51)

DerektheRed on commanders for a token deck

1 month ago

Check out Riku of Two Reflections. Oldie but a goodie.

Temur/RUG colors? Check.

Cranking out whatever tokens you want? Check.

Double tokens from instants and sorceries? Check.

Colors to support Doubling Season, Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Progenitor Mimic, etc. etc? Check.

ZendikariWol on Roon your day in a blink of an eye

1 month ago

Personally I'd say Farhaven Elf over Wood Elves, but I agree- better picks than Fertilid. Also agreed on cutting Myr Battlesphere, Pride Sovereign, and Galepowder Mage.

However, Soulherder's dual use as a general value accumulator and a wincon sets it, imo, as a must-have for any blink deck. Blade of Selves might not be as good as, perhaps, Progenitor Mimic, Helm of the Host, or other cards that don't require you to attack to get copies.

Doritoboy100 on Deck help Oko+Simic guild+simic mutology ...

3 months ago

Hello all, I have been playing with the Oko structure deck, that I updated using Affinity For MTG's youtube video, and just bought the Simic Mutology structure deck as well as the Simic Guild Kit, as well as some booster pack cards. I'm trying to combine them into a 75 card deck, with 15 cards I know to take out for 60. Based off the cards in these 3 decks I'd like to build the deck around a constant flow of powerful monsters through the +1/+1 counters, as well as overloading on mana and drawing a lot. Some of the main points of damage right now are Oko who can just turn everything into a base 10/10 and distribute lots of +1/+1s, vorel who can double somethings counters, zegana who gives trample, galloping lizrog which can take all the +1/+1s and double them onto himself, nylea's forerunner for trample, progenitors mimic and miming slime to make clones, and wild born preserver for reach and his +1/+1s. But I also have things like coiling oracle/fathom mage to draw a lot, and gyre sage/maraleaf pixie for tons of mana. So I'd like to just find a good strategy in this mess lol.

The total card list of everything I will have is: (stuff with "x" seems important to me) Creatures: 1 Oko, the Tricksterx, 1 Vorel of the Hull Cladex, 1 Zegana, Utopian Speakerx, 1 Momir Vig, Simic Visionaryx, 2 Cloudfin Raptor, 4 Coiling Oraclex, 1 Cytoplast Root-Kin, 1 Elusive Krasis, 4 Faerie Vandalx, 1 Fathom Magex, 1 Frilled Mysticx, 1 Galloping Lizrogx, 1 Gyre Sagex, 4 Keeper of Fablesx, 3 Maraleaf Pixiex, 1 Nimbus Swimmer, 1 Nylea's Forerunnerx, 3 Paradise Druid, 2 Plaxmantax, 1 Progenitor Mimicx, 1 Protean Hulkx, 3 Spectral Sailorx, 4 Sphinx of Foresight, 2 Surveilling Sprite, 1 Trygon Predator, 2 Vigean Graftmage, 3 Vigean Hydropon, 1 Wildborn Preserverx, 2 Zameck Guildmagex,

Instants: 1 Applied Biomancyx, 1 Disdainful Strokex, 1 Gift of Strengthx, 2 Oko's Hospitalityx, 3 Optx, 1 Prying Eyes, 1 Quenchx, 1 Radical Ideax, 2 Rapid Hybridization, 1 Return of the Wildspeakerx, 1 Voidslime,

Sorcery: 2 Flash Foliagex, 1 Maximize Altitudex, 1 Miming Slimex, 1 Selective Snarex, 2 Shielding Plaxx, 1 Urban Evolutionx,

Enchantments: 3 Charmed Sleepx, 3 Frogifyx, 2 Setessan Trainingx,

Artifacts: 2 Simic Signet,

Land: 4 Simic Growth Chamberx, 4 Simic Guildgate, 4 Thornwood Fallsx, X Forestx, X Islandx

Thanks!

ZendikariWol on Allied Invasion

3 months ago

Targeting any of your wizards with a Rite of Replication (especially Hagra Diabolist or Turntimber Ranger, who is not a wizard) is massive.

On that note, Progenitor Mimic slots nicely into a similar place in this deck.

Meeknomore on

3 months ago

I like the theme of the deck. I too am a fan of copy cat and +1/+1 counter strategies. I haven't leaned into the proliferate mechanic much, but I noticed that you don't have Inexorable Tide in there...seems like a major upgrade for the deck.

Also, another copy cat creature that I love using is Progenitor Mimic. It can be a bit slow, but if your meta doesn't include a ton of removal, a few turns with him out can be devastating.

Ovanlight on Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath (w/Primer)

4 months ago

UPDATE:

In: Vedalken Mastermind , Eternal Witness , and Hua Tuo, Honored Physician Out: Progenitor Mimic , Jace, Wielder of Mysteries , and Rancor

Progenitor Mimic seemed pretty slow for the list, and giving more ways that I can put Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath in my hand in response to his effect is better than a copy of creatures each turn. It was replaced by two cards (spiritually, even though I know you can only replace one with one.)

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries is just another Laboratory Maniac effect, and Thassa's Oracle fills the slot by itself fairly well, not really needing two of them.

Rancor ended up being really conditional recursion, and Eternal Witness filled the same slot but significantly more on theme with ETB themes.

Thanks NV_1980! I really appreciate your suggestions.

Also, SylonThalen, I love the idea! I just don't dip my toes into cEDH or cEDH-like decks. I had to reel it back a bit so I'm not the guy with the biggest threats in my group. Still a great take on the commander though!

moremanawins on Semi-Budget Reaper King

5 months ago

Progenitor Mimic is a cheaper Helm of the Host type effect but it’s less reliable because it triggers on upkeep instead of combat. Although this is offset by cheaper mana investment and it can target opposing creatures. As for card advantage there’s things like Mulldrifter and Phyrexian Gargantua for ETB based draw. For incremental draw there’s cards like Staff of Nin , Monastery Siege , and Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip. For one off draw effects I really like Drawn from Dreams , Urban Evolution , and Game Plan . Also another sweet card in here would be Irregular Cohort . All these cards are very cheap. The mimic is around $2-$4 but that’s cheaper than helm so still worth. Anyways +1 from me and if you get a chance go check out my Pir and Toothy deck.

Osbert on Yarok combo landfall

5 months ago

DarthDC I'm an advocate for greaves over swiftfoot boots but you can always include both.

There are plenty of cards that can cheaply replicate and reuse some of your most powerful ETB cards. I'm thinking of clones or psuedo clones like Progenitor Mimic , Mirror Mockery , Phantasmal Image , Rite of Replication , Blade of Selves , Bramble Sovereign (also is an ETB ability so by paying 2GG you can have an ETB go off 6 times with Yarok!!), Faerie Artisans (another ETB trigger that Yarok doubles), etc.

The above cards aren't really control cards but more value oriented. Some of them are very efficient though so I would suggest using them.

Haha all I'm doing is suggesting cards I have in my Yarok deck so sometime soon I will get around to making a deck list and I'll send you the link.