MTG Salvation

This card seems sweet.

I think meh. 4 mana clones don't cut it in cube anymore unless they have crazy upside (a la Dack's Duplicate), and paying X for X counters doesn't seem like crazy upside to me. I think this is a pretty easy pass.

This card seems like hot garbage to me. A ton of the time it's just clone, but harder to cast. <10% of games the can't be countered will be relevant, and my guess is that <10% of games will being able to pay X for X +1/+1 counters be relevant. This just seems way worse than evil twin, honestly.

Let's look at what clones are good in cube - phantasmal image - 2 cmc. 2! Not 4, and not gold. Phyrexiam metamorph - normally costs 3, goes in any deck, and can copy artifacts. Dack's duplicate - haste is huge. Finally, clever impersonator, which didn't end up being good enough in a lot of cubes, but was mono-colored and could copy anything. Is this enough better than impersonator to make it in gold sections? No. Way. I don't think it's even better than impersonator.

If this cost x1GU I would certainly be interested.

Being the spoiled brats we are: I'd cube this for sure if it cost XUG, and would consider it at X1UG. As is, it's too expensive for a multi-colored Clone.

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Being the spoiled brats we are: I'd cube this for sure if it cost XUG, and would consider it at X1UG. As is, it's too expensive for a multi-colored Clone.

THIS. We cubists (cubers?) have become pretentious brats/snobs when it comes to multicolored cards, LOL.

But it's true. We have to be very picky, since we only have 3-6 slots in each guild to play with (depending on the size of our cubes).

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Being the spoiled brats we are: I'd cube this for sure if it cost XUG, and would consider it at X1UG. As is, it's too expensive for a multi-colored Clone.

I don't think that we are brats when Progenitor Mimic, Evil Twin, and Dack's Duplicant are the 2 color clones we have seen before. All of those are much better than this. This was the color pair that should be best at awesome clones, cheaper creature, and hexproof. Maybe in another 4 years I will get the simic clone I want.

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This card would have been dope if it could copy anything like Clever Impersonator but come in with +X loyalty / charge counters.

Good idea. Pay 6 mana, copy Sarkahn Vol, ultimate right away. Lolz.

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Quote from Fredo »

Being the spoiled brats we are: I'd cube this for sure if it cost XUG, and would consider it at X1UG. As is, it's too expensive for a multi-colored Clone.

I don't think that we are brats when Progenitor Mimic, Evil Twin, and Dack's Duplicant are the 2 color clones we have seen before. All of those are much better than this. This was the color pair that should be best at awesome clones, cheaper creature, and hexproof. Maybe in another 4 years I will get the simic clone I want.

Spitting Image is actually MUCH better than I thought it was going to be when we tried it out. The inevitability is nuts in any midrange or control matchup.

If I'm paying 4 mana for a multicolor Clone, I'd expect it to enter with a +1/+1 counter already on it.

We've been impressed with Gigantoplasm, but this is mostly worse and is multicolor.

I'd consider this if it were mono-blue, but I'm not going out of my way for this effect in multicolor when I've already cut stuff like Dack's Duplicate.

I may try it out, but I have a fondness of clone effects. This lets me get round some of the feel bad when there is nothing good to copy, because I can just sink my mana into it.

Im running

• Murkfiend Liege
  
• Progenitor Mimic
  
• Simic Sky Swallower

I'd probably take out the Murkfiend Liege and see how it goes.