Renegade Doppelganger

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Renegade Doppelganger

Creature — Shapeshifter

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Renegade Doppelganger become a copy of that creature until end of turn. (If it does, it loses this ability for the rest of the turn.)

Quickspell on Legend rule and stacking effects

5 months ago

In my Hidetsugu and Kairi combo deck that uses sac-outlets and reanimation spells like Zombify to create a finite but hopefully fatal loop, I want to use Renegade Doppelganger as sort of blue sac-outlet.

Can somebody please confirm if this works:

  1. Renegade Doppelganger is on the battlefield.
  2. Hidetsugu and Kairi enters the battlefield.
  3. The legend rules applies before H&K‘s ETB goes on the stack. I chose to send the original H&K to the graveyard. This triggers it’s dying-ability.
  4. Since now the stack is open and the ETB has not yet been placed, I can choose to put the death trigger first and the ETB on top. This would allow me to brainstorm for recursion spells and reanimate H&K, going back to step 1.

Squee_Spirit_Guide on Shifty Crabs!

1 year ago

Hey Andramalech! Thanks for the upvote and your thoughts! I love Scapeshift, and I especially like using it in non-traditional ways. I've also experimented with mid-range, more control-based versions with some success. I've found the Crabshift version to be pretty fun and consistent!

How well do you find the Renegade Doppelganger and Artisan of Forms work for duplicating the crabs? I went with the more traditional Phantasmal Image because, admittedly, I didnt know about the others. But I feel like they might be slow since they don't immediately duplicate the crab. Quasiduplicate has me intrigued. I can see that being useful because of the retrace. I'm going to experiment with that a bit.

I took a peek at your version and noticed it's Vintage, which I think would be a blast! I'll take a closer look and let you know what I think!

Andramalech on Shifty Crabs!

1 year ago

Hey Squee_Spirit_Guide! I've actually had a deck like this put together for quite some time! I would love your feedback on it, and I have definitely been caught calling it 'Crabshift' before or even 'Hedronshift'.

For me, I developed this build because of what I had seen from Scapeshift builds that used typical Valakut combo or Primeval Titan, except I was in love (and have always been!) With crabs. Specifically Hedron Crab.

Would love to hear your thoughts on it as I lean solely into the crabs doing my heavy lifting, a lot of my deck looks like a hyper-meta mono blue mill deck.

Another variant I had put together uses Renegade Doppelganger, Artisan of Forms, and Quasiduplicate and Cackling Counterpart to 'Shadow Clone Jutsu' my crabs.

The link for my 'Crabshift' : UG Crabs

BlackoutX on Something’s in my eye! Whatever shall I do?

2 years ago

Wood Elves makes more sense in a two-color deck.

Renegade Doppelganger can be used to make one of your opponents waste a kill spell or just lose the game because you pull out so much value.

Baral's Expertise can be abused easily in your deck, it's also a very good control card.

Daze and Gush may be good cards to consider, you may want to play more heavily around landfall if you do though.

triproberts12 on Yes, No, Maybe, I Don't Know

4 years ago

I was playing around with a giant list a little while ago, and the conclusion that I came to is that Jeskai Giants (Jeskai Jiants?) led by Ruhan of the Fomori is the best build, since you can use on-board tricks like Shapesharer , Vesuvan Shapeshifter , Renegade Doppelganger , Artisan of Forms , Arcane Artisan , Cryptoplasm , and Call to the Kindred along with copy effects like Quasiduplicate to skip over playing a bunch of mediocre Giants, instead copying the good 6+ mana ones the turn they come down. The nuts is copying an Arcane Artisan , and have it become your insane giant in response.

QuamQuam on Clarification on Copyable Values

5 years ago

I got a question concerning copying permanents or creatures until the end of turn only with either Mirage Mirror , Renegade Doppelganger or Dimir Doppelganger

Lets say I let either of them become a copy of a Lazav, Dimir Mastermind who is copying Creature A.

Lazav dies due to legendrule. and Creature B Enters an opponents graveyard, which i let my copy get to copy aswell.

My understanding is that in the end everything goes back to the original creature/ Mirage mirror.

Am i correct here?

thanks =)

lagotripha on Behold blessed perfection - Dimir Control

5 years ago

Phyrexian Rager's younger brother, Dusk Legion Zealot will really help you getting creatures onto the field for sacrifice effects if you want to go that route. Might be better in esper colours for Lingering Souls and tokens though.

Past that, I have a Mono black deckbuilder's toolbox list of stuff I see in mono black in modern- a lot might be fun. Remember that in an isolated meta its best to switch it up and try not to let anything get too stale, and B/x has a lot of tools for that.

With the horror tribal thing you could dip into the relevant changelings - Skeletal Changeling, Shapesharer etc. Remember that copying a transforming card doesn't let you transform it, but you still get the thing in the ice wrath effect 'on tap' whenever you cast an instant/sorcery. With thing, copying it with 'becomes a copy' rather than entering as a copy means it doesn't start with any ice counters, so instant asymetric evacuation, whenever you want. Could be pretty strong if you build for it with Renegade Doppelganger and the like.

Darth_Savage on Blue Fax Machine

5 years ago

Hi SprScuba,

There are familiar foundations in this deck, similar in many ways to Owl-ing Mine (not my deck, but it inspired my own take on owl-ing mine), but with a different and possibly more fragile payoff. My initial thought is that your deck would struggle against other decks which aren't particularly creature focussed; heavy discard (8-rack), Storm and other go-wide strategies (Affinity / 8-Wack / Pyromancer / BW Tokens). Now if your meta is filled with good-stuff creature decks then this is exactly the sort of deck that can prey on that, but metas change...

I wouldn't particularly worry about enchantment removal, it is far less common, especially since Black and Red don't have access to it, but I would worry about facing decks which aren't creature focussed or go-wide. One of the easiest fixes I can think of is to play the Biovisionary combo. Splashing Green would give you access to ramp and Herald of the Pantheon too, which could help play those enchantments. Though if the aim was Biovisionary then Renegade Doppelganger and Cackling Counterpart would be good choices, maybe even one of Progenitor Mimic.

If you are planning to stay in mono blue, then you need an alternative win-con, the two obvious ones being Thing in the Ice  Flip and Cryptic Serpent, but even an Illusory Angel or Riptide Chimera could work. Your also not running any clones, per say Cryptoplasm or Phantasmal Image are the first that come to mind.

I guess what my comment boils down to is that your deck needs a better win-con, incase you are faced with a deck which isn't aggro focussed. I hope this is of some help, have fun brewing your deck.

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