MTG Salvation

Hi guys, ex-Twinner here who bought into copycat the moment she and her cat were printed but the list was never quite strong enough until Astrolabe.

I've gone 3 FNMs now with 2-1, 3-0, 2-1, the losses stemming from flood and me letting my opponent roll back something I should have insisted on. Oh well.

My list prioritizes the combo, meaning card velocity and maximum of all pieces, and looks like this:



I always thought the push that Copycat needed would come from something fancy and powerful, like Force of Negation. In truth the real push came from the humblest little 1 cmc artifact. The astrolabe fundamentally changed a flaw in the original copycat deck - that saheeli and her feline friend were pretty horrible at working with anything else in the deck; and you had to pick between velocity to your combo, control and mana efficiency. They were limited to replicating the snapcaster ETB, and then Teferi and Narset came along and benefited the cat, but that was about it. I'm benefiting so much from Astrolabe and I still can't believe how much it changes the deck. Teferi bouncing the astrolabe and drawing and then recasting for another draw is just crazy.

As I windmill slammed my combo over the past few weeks the nostalgia was real.