Flip him up to copy a chronozoa, if you get Wrathed then you will get 2 cronozoas because it died when it didn't have any counters on it.
izzet_guild_mage
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Haha, you're so right, Tommy. This card has 1,000,000 and 1 goofy interactions like that. I love it for it XD
KarmasPayment
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Except for the small issue of vanishing is terribad.
You sack to vanishing as soon as it has no counters on it, because unlike fading, it doesn't take going through your upkeep to kill it, as soon as the last counter is removed, it dies.
So it would look something like this, Flip in response to wrath (on top of the first chronozoa's vanishing trigger), dies as state base effect because it doesn't have counters, two tokens come into play, wrath resolves, tokens die.
Unless you're doing this with a chronozoa with counters on it still, which wouldn't give you tokens at all.
Nonetheless, it doesn't work.
On a side note, Woodripper is great in EDH, not only take out three pesky artifacts, but it stays on board as a blocker until it goes through your upkeep. fading > vanishing.
Daikoru
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
In a Morph deck, this card is one of the bests, allowing you to reuse turn-face-up abilities of your other creatures should they have already flipped over, for a very little cost, and once per turn. In my first game of my Morph deck, this card allowed me to combine with a Willbender and make opponent sacrifice two creatures with his own Chainer's Edict
Additionnally, you can copy your opponent's creatures to take care of them. Copy a creature with more or equal power than toughness, and you can kamikaze your shapeshifter on it. Copy a creature with less power than toughness, and you can stall it out. If the creature an opponent just summoned have a Tap ability, you can use it before he does. If you want a Legendary dead, you can force the Legend rule on it for an instant kill. And if you equip your shapeshifter with some good cards, you can get to kill the opponent's creature AND keep your shapeshifter!
littlebeast
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
@Karma: No, it would work. Vanishing sacrifices the creature when the last counter is removed, not at any time that there are no counters on it.
Now the real question is, would the tokens be able to use the copying ability? I know they would still have the ability to flip down, but what happens when you have a face-down token? Is it removed? Does it flip face down but can't flip back up? Or does it somehow gain the text of the original card again?
Ruling question - Let's say I morph to a Faceless Butcher and eat the face of your Blightsteel Colossus. Then I turn the shapeshifter back down. The Faceless Butcher is still in play but hasn't got the abilities of a butcher any more? so does the colossus come back or not?
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of my favorite clones... combines Vesuvan Shapeshifter with the always fun Morph mechanic. 5/5. Perfect design. Malleable to the opponent's plays.
LordRandomness
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Karmas: Look closer at vanishing. You sacrifice the creature when its last vanishing counter is removed, NOT when it has none on it. If it had none to begin with, you never removed the last one, now did you? Stifling the sacrifice trigger will, in fact, keep the vanisher alive indefinitely because of this.
Come to think of it, Vanishing 0 would be an amusing thing to use along with a condition under which the permanent gains time counters...
Trygon_Predator
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A true shapeshifter! You can have it become a new creature every turn. Just don't flip it when there's nothing else to copy...
Does it remain a copy of the card even when it goes to the graveyard?
Missile_Penguin
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Each Time Spiral card was an homage to at least one previously printed card.
The card references Vesuvan Doppelganger. The little spider thing you see on the right side of the picture represents what a face-down creature looks like while morphed. Card's such as Break Open and Dermoplasm show the creatures emerging from the morph 'shell'.
Magnor_Criol
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
R.I.P. Quinton Hoover. Your art was iconic, and this is still among the best Magic art out there.
TheDouce
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My favorite clone by far. I run at least 1 in any deck that has blue in it. Also it's about the only morph creature I use regularly. Have had lot of great times with this guy.
KribatiOmega
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This morphing triggers "enter battlefield" abilities from the copied creature?
Burningsickle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
5/5 just for a neat concept. I imagine there are an endless number of combos for this card, but honestly, it seems like it would be serviceable in most any blue deck. Shifting it into whatever the most powerful creature around happens to be is pretty remarkable. Perhaps use with cards like Mind Control and Act of Treason
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not my idea
You sack to vanishing as soon as it has no counters on it, because unlike fading, it doesn't take going through your upkeep to kill it, as soon as the last counter is removed, it dies.
So it would look something like this, Flip in response to wrath (on top of the first chronozoa's vanishing trigger), dies as state base effect because it doesn't have counters, two tokens come into play, wrath resolves, tokens die.
Unless you're doing this with a chronozoa with counters on it still, which wouldn't give you tokens at all.
Nonetheless, it doesn't work.
On a side note, Woodripper is great in EDH, not only take out three pesky artifacts, but it stays on board as a blocker until it goes through your upkeep. fading > vanishing.
Additionnally, you can copy your opponent's creatures to take care of them. Copy a creature with more or equal power than toughness, and you can kamikaze your shapeshifter on it. Copy a creature with less power than toughness, and you can stall it out. If the creature an opponent just summoned have a Tap ability, you can use it before he does. If you want a Legendary dead, you can force the Legend rule on it for an instant kill. And if you equip your shapeshifter with some good cards, you can get to kill the opponent's creature AND keep your shapeshifter!
Now the real question is, would the tokens be able to use the copying ability? I know they would still have the ability to flip down, but what happens when you have a face-down token? Is it removed? Does it flip face down but can't flip back up? Or does it somehow gain the text of the original card again?
I know that combo WOULD work with Vesuvan Doppelganger. But at that point, Mirror-Sigil Sergeant would probably be better.
Come to think of it, Vanishing 0 would be an amusing thing to use along with a condition under which the permanent gains time counters...
The card references Vesuvan Doppelganger. The little spider thing you see on the right side of the picture represents what a face-down creature looks like while morphed. Card's such as Break Open and Dermoplasm show the creatures emerging from the morph 'shell'.