Vizier of Many Faces

Creature — Shapeshifter

You may have Vizier of Many Faces enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except if Vizier of Many Faces was embalmed, the token has no mana cost, it's white, and it's a Zombie in addition to its other types.

Embalm

Discussion (50)

griffstick on Kruphix and his Eldrazi Friends

4 months ago

I'd look at all the clones. To get up to at least 26 or 27 creatures.

Clone

Stunt Double

Altered Ego

Spark Double

Gigantoplasm

Vizier of Many Faces

Mirage Mirror

Hazankob on U/B Mill/Reanimator (EDH)

6 months ago

Out: 2 basics, Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief , Dread Return , Ob Nixilis Reignited , Stitcher Geralf , Swiftfoot Boots In: Drownyard Temple , Geier Reach Sanitarium , Temporal Aperture , Entreat the Dead , Mortivore , Vizier of Many Faces , Wretched Confluence

Hazankob on Enchant Bant WUG (EDH)

6 months ago

Update: Today

More nonbasic lands added.

Out: Faith's Fetters , Greenwarden of Murasa , Mulldrifter , Phyrexian Rebirth , Temporal Aperture , Yavimaya Enchantress .

In: Estrid, the Masked , Estrid's Invocation , Kestia, the Cultivator , Silent Sentinel , Tuvasa the Sunlit , Vizier of Many Faces .

Gidgetimer on Why Was this Formatting Changed?

6 months ago

The two types of abilities are functionally different since CDAs (the "old" style with */*) operate in all zones and the 0/0s with static abilities only operate on the battlefield. Having said that, over the past 2 years new cards with either break down to:

CDA

• Abominable Treefolk (a spoiler for Modern Horizons)
• Awakened Amalgam
• Graveyard Busybody (yes I am counting silver cards, they are still templated in the current style)
• Knight of the Widget
• Tishana, Voice of Thunder
• Majestic Myriarch
• Apocalypse Demon
• Vizier of Many Faces

Static ability

• Shanna, Sisay's Legacy
• Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar

So, unless I missed a large number of cards the last 2 years of cards don't agree with your assessment.

eliakimras on Clones, Clones everywhere

7 months ago

Congratulations for your deck! I like the idea of cloning stuff, and I am still trying to find a build that works. If I can give you a hint, prefer cards that can clone any creature on the field over the cards that can only clone your creatures (everyone should have a Consecrated Sphinx , right? Not only your opponent).

I don't feel like would help you much with cloning. The best (and maybe only) white card that refers to cloning is Mirrorweave .

If you look at https://edhrec.com/themes/clones, you will see that almost all clone effects are blue: Clone , Vizier of Many Faces , Gigantoplasm , Vesuvan Shapeshifter , Body Double , Mirror Image , Supplant Form , Blatant Thievery , Clone Legion , Mirror Match . If you want to copy spells aswell, Insidious Will , Swarm Intelligence and Spelltwine are there for you.

gives you Mirror Match , Dack's Duplicate , Dualcaster Mage , Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker , Protean Raider , Flameshadow Conjuring and Sunbird's Invocation .

gives you Evil Twin and all black tutors and removal.

gives you Altered Ego , Progenitor Mimic , Spitting Image and all of green ramp and removal. For me, it is the best color to splash on a blue clone deck, because it also allows the Biovisionary alternative win-condition.

As long as commander suggestions are concerned, here are some ideas:

Riku of Two Reflections is the go-to clone commander. He has all the relevant colors for cloning (), but he is crazy expensive at 20 dollars, so it might be good to consider other options:

You can have Keiga, the Tide Star as your commander. This way, you can clone him and let the copy Keiga die to the legend rule. When the Keiga copy dies, you can steal an opponent's creature, while still having the original Keiga.

You can have Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer as your commander. He is a win condition by himself, giving tokens haste and making all of them bigger. Red gives you a lot of token generators: Brass's Bounty , Flameshadow Conjuring , Storm the Vault  ^Flip among others. Imagine creating a token copy of a Kokusho, the Evening Star , then turn all your tokens into Kokusho, then sacrificing all them to the legend rule, then draining all your oponents for lethal. Great value!

You can have Tatyova, Benthic Druid as your commander. She doesn't refer to a clone strategy, but she gives a lot of card draw by just playing lands (your hand will always be filled). You can clone Rampaging Baloths and Avenger of Zendikar for a massive win. Also, you have access to all the blue-green clones and the Biovisionary + Rite of Replication combo.

If you want to use altogether, you might consider Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder or Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis . Yidris allows you to use Evil Twin and all the black removal. Yidris also increases the value you get from playing spells by cascading into other spells. // K&T, on the other hand, gives you card advantage and makes you less threatening while you build your board. White also gives you access to great boardwipes ( Austere Command ).

All in all, good luck in your deckbuilding and have fun!

EPICSpider23 on Staring Contest: A List of Blink-Effect Cards

7 months ago

ETB Clones: Infinite Reflection , Mirrorpool , Spark Double , Vesuvan Shapeshifter , Body Double , Clever Impersonator , Dack's Duplicate , Evil Twin , Gigantoplasm , Mirror Image , Phantasmal Image , Phyrexian Metamorph , Protean Raider , Quicksilver Gargantuan , Progenitor Mimic , Sakashima the Impostor , Sakashima's Student , Stunt Double , Vizier of Many Faces , Altered Ego , Bramble Sovereign .

Inalla, Archmage Ritualist and Riku of Two Reflections are sorta both ETB Clone and ETB Abuse so put them wherever you wish.

Just some cards, hope that helps.

Graytr on

8 months ago

I LOVE this deck strategy, and there's a lot of cards that can support it (it's also super fun in commander). You are in red so if you want to go the Traitorous Blood , Hijack , etc. route, you easily can.

First thing that comes to mind of though is Knowledge Pool . Absolute sh*tstorm every time, so much fun.

Blue Show

In blue, there's also a bunch of cards like Bribery , Jace's Mindseeker , and Sphinx Ambassador that you could add. Blue of course has a bunch of cloning. I see you're not running Vizier of Many Faces .

Red Show

Besides the aforementioned one turn steals like Hijack , red has things like Stolen Strategy , and Etali, Primal Storm .

Artifacts Show

There are also some artifacts that come to mind besides Knowledge Pool , such as Vedalken Shackles , Chaos Wand , and Grinning Totem .

Lastly, you have a bunch of other things thrown in here that don't follow this game plan (but do follow the game plan of your commander well). Things like Tatyova, Benthic Druid . I'm thinking you should make this specific deck less of a Stealing Deck, and just make it a better Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis deck. Then take all your Stealing cards and pick a different commander for that deck strategy (because it does sound super fun).

Some options for different commanders could be: Show

• Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge : You lose white and green, but keep red and blue (your current most important Stealy colours). You also gain black which could give you some good graveyard steals
• Zedruu the Greathearted : You lose blue, which could be a big loss. But this also changes your deck strategy from Stealing to switching, which isn't that big of a difference but could be a lot of fun. Switch your Steel Golem for your opponents commander.
• Admiral Beckett Brass : Thieving, conniving, pirates. What more do you need? Still keeps your blue and red, and throws in black as well.

This is all off the top of my head, but I hope you get some help from it.

TheNocholas on Ruuuun

8 months ago

Clone and Vizier of Many Faces could even out some over powered board states.