I got this card on Planar Chaos prerelease and it was pretty good. Had I noticed during the tournament that it has flying, it could have been even better. He, one of my favourite misplays of my own.
Piechart
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(5 votes)
This card is really cool. It's not super powerfull, but I love the creative ability it has.
SavageBrain89
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Always a fun card with the right combos.
Faidite
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(4 votes)
So this doubles in number evey three turns? Nice.
SpookiusMortem
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Works well with Whispersilk Cloak.
Mattmedia
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
wow, that is a target for some serious removal, and vanishing that has an awesome purpose
Jokergius
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Want to make Chronozoa babies faster??? FIRST, put a Whipersilk Cloak on the original (preferably). THEN cast a Paradox Haze. d^-^b BABIES IN LESS THAN THREE TURNS!
This card likes Vampire Hexmage and Cemetery Puca!
gnilleps
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(3 votes)
this guy rocks my paradox haze deck. sets it up so you've got these guys doubling once, possibly even twice a turn with all the added upkeeps. throw in soul warden and you start gaining a whole lot of life. got my total past a thousand.
Lord_Ascapelion
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(7 votes)
This card makes a strong case for the "Protozoa" creature type.
Totally terrifying, especially at a paltry 4CC. I agree that Vampire Hexmage is an excellent way to get this guy creating multiple copies as quickly as possibe.
4.5/5
SIlverSkyz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Death dark
I've made a comment on a similar ruling, on Deathgreeter i believe. Anyway, the point is tokens do hit the graveyard. They get removed as a state-based action afterwards and it is generally an acceptable shortcut to simply remove it from the game. Also, do you think that EVERYONE who commented on this before you was so dumb as to not realize that, if you had been correct?
Duskdale_Wurm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Perfect example of cell division. :D
sarroth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ElbowWarrior: Why not run both? After all, Chronozoa would trigger Mirror-Sigil Sergeant's ability. With blue and white you should be able to control the board long enough to get both out there.
ClockworkSwordfish
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like this guy a lot. A 3/3 flier for 4 is decent, though a little inefficient for blue, but it is so flavorful and fun that I don't care. This is the best way I could imagine to represent mitotic division of a creature. Makes me really wish for more protozoan creatures. Maybe a 2/2 nonflier for 3 with vanishing 2? Please, Wizards?
Crazy combo time: Of course, Paradox Haze with this is fun, more Hazes more fun, but it gets insane when you put Followed Footsteps on the original, then have multiple Hazes out. Just one Haze actually makes for roughly exponential growth, as befits a true protozoan (assuming no individuals are Doom Bladed).
DlCK
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(3 votes)
@ SpookiusMortem
Wow, what a creative find! Whispersilk cloak is so useless on everything else, thanks for the heads-up! It really took a lot of MTG wisdom to find that combo.
masonthekiller
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I believe people are misinterpreting this card.
First, it has vanishing. When you remove the last counter, it's sacrificed. If I'm not mistaken, the sacrificing from vanishing only triggers if there are time counters removed from the permanent, thus if you Hexmage it you can't remove the last counter and sacrifice effect will happen and it doesn't go into the graveyard. That doesn't mean, however, there aren't other ways to toss it to the graveyard quickly.
Also, Cemetery Puca would become a copy of Chronozoa, but wouldn't get the time counters. You'd have to find another way to kill it or add time counters.
Followed Footsteps is an alright idea, but it's a waste of followed footsteps.
A nice combo I found with Chronozoa is with, of course, Paradox Haze, any creature with "Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +X/+X" and Mortician Beetle. You can sacrifice a creature while the vanishing sacrifice is on the stack, so Chronozoa will have no time counters on it when you feed it to your eater to give it +x/+x, Mortician Beetle will get a +1/+1, and you get two more Chronozoa. Total cash.
Madscorpion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
oh nevermind i should learn to finish reading a card before getting all excited about it...
BloodJunkie
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is one awesome card. Ya, sure, he's the target of removal. Ya, sure I could put Lightning Greaves or something like that to prevent said removal. But I don't think anyone got the most important fact. This card is blue. Therefore, it's going to be hitting you alongside counter spells, bounces, and all kinds of other blue trickery. IMO he doesn't need shroud.
Amazing card. Amazing flavor. And the most amazing color to make such a card. Wouldn't survive in green, black, or red, that's for sure.
5/5
Corey_bayoudragonfly
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
@masonthekiller: actually, you can Vampire Hexmage this. It is sacrificed when you remove the last counter. Hexy removes all counters, thus removing the last one and forcing Chronozoa's sacrifice (with no counters, making clonez). Vanishing and Fading are thus slightly different.
Superllama12
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
New. Favorite. Card. EVAH!!!!!!!! Not only is it crazy fun to play, but there must be sooooooooo many combos!!!!!!!!!!!111
ThisisSakon
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(7 votes)
This card will love Hex Parasite from New Phyrexia :)
DeathDark
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
4 for a flying 3/3 that becomes two flying 3/3 creatures.
Not bad. However, note that this will only reproduce once. The tokens it creates cease to exist once they leave the battlefield. This means you have 2 3/3 creatures for 3 turns.
Not worth my mana.
EDIT: I was wrong, ignore this.
Tommy9898
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I love Timespiral block
Equinox523
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
How do I Neck Snap this? Does it even have a neck?
Asatraur
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Does this mean that each copy gets the vanish and replicate again...i.e. 1 3/3 wit flying (3 turns later) 2 3/3's wit flying (3 turns later) 4 3/3's wit flying and so on??
Buderus
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
you have to use shapeshifters with him, simply clone him and sacrifice the clone = Tada!
2 free Chronozoas ;) Alot of Shapeshifters work for this
@shLt: Note that Doubling Season will also double the number of time counters they come into play with, meaning you'll have to wait twice as long before they split (and leaving that much more time for them to die while still having counters on them). Yes, believe it or not, there's actually a card that makes tokens that doesn't work well with Doubling Season.
And Splinter Twin would also be a poor choice, since the copies it makes will never get a chance to split unless you have some other way of removing the counters, and you'll lose the enchantment whenever the one you cast it on dies.
Rake_Dalonn
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
James Wong did the art for 3 cards and then vanished...
Shadoflaam
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I've got an amoebic fever, and the only cure is MORE CHRONOZOA! Seriously though this is a boss.
chaoscontrol71
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
what would the token's converted mana cost be for stuff like necroplasm?
leomistico
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Actually, the copy of a creature keeps the mana cost of the original, so its token have a CMC of 4... I had a deck at that time with a lot of suspend helpers and things like Chisei, Power conduit and the like... This card was a beast! Provided that you keep always a counterspell for the Wrath of God, you're almost instoppable, except that time that my opponent played Collective Restraint... It happened to me...!
FIVE words: Paradise Mantle, Leech Bonder, Cryptoplasm - - - Googolplex mana, 3/3 flyers, AND Crypto-zoas that can copy things at just an upkeep away??!! - - - Wait a minute...... YES! gg (ok, that was more than 5... but hey, I'm trying)
MizziumSculptor444
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Mana Echoes. It's time-consuming (hurr hurr), but a good stall deck can abuse it to no end.
Arachnos
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
A creature based on time (chrono...) unsurprizingly comboes with Clockspinning.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Parallel Lives. For the purpose of maxing out your Chronozoa token output, Parallel Lives is strictly better than Doubling Season.
It's not just a mind-boggling quantity of Chronozoas, throw in some Myr Propagators, Pack Rats, etc, etc...
I once played against a guy using this and parallel lives. By the time he finally attacked with them he had nearly 3000 of them. the rest of the match went like this Him:"Yeah! 3000 3/3 fliers! WHAT'CHU GONNA DO NOW?" Me:"Tapping for nine mana, flashing in 3 izzet staticasters."
After that he just got up and left.
Frenzy13
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
We have the pieces of the combo here, but we have yet to out them together:
Use hex parasite's X ability to remove the counters from chronozoa, producing the two copies. The soul warden's ability then activates regaining you the two life you lost from activating the ability. Mana Echoes then activates, adding mana equal to the number of illusions. If there are then at least 3 illusions, you will have enough mana to use the parasite's ability again.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Torpor Orb stops the Chronozoa from entering with any vanish counters... just keep saccing him over... and over... and over.
(Rules Excerpt: 702.62a - Vanishing is a keyword that represents three abilities. “Vanishing N” means “This permanent enters the battlefield with N time counters on it,”...) etc.
SolomonRedfang
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Fenizrael Sorry, but Torpor Orb doesn't stop Vanishing. It would if it was "when it enters, place N time counters on this card", but under current rules, it doesn't affect it.
This card has an extremely creative design, and the flavour makes me want to squeal with glee. A four mana 3/3 flyer isn't too bad in blue just right off the bat, and its ability to become unstoppable if ignored leads to some unforgettable matches.
5/5
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One begot two, two begot four, four begot eight...
TheGigiBeast
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Epic card with things like Hex Parasite and all those token removers to go fast (especially when you can remove a lot of tokens for free)
Comments (53)
d^-^b
BABIES IN LESS THAN THREE TURNS!
4.5/5
I've made a comment on a similar ruling, on Deathgreeter i believe.
Anyway, the point is tokens do hit the graveyard. They get removed as a state-based action afterwards and it is generally an acceptable shortcut to simply remove it from the game.
Also, do you think that EVERYONE who commented on this before you was so dumb as to not realize that, if you had been correct?
Crazy combo time:
Of course, Paradox Haze with this is fun, more Hazes more fun, but it gets insane when you put Followed Footsteps on the original, then have multiple Hazes out. Just one Haze actually makes for roughly exponential growth, as befits a true protozoan (assuming no individuals are Doom Bladed).
Wow, what a creative find! Whispersilk cloak is so useless on everything else, thanks for the heads-up! It really took a lot of MTG wisdom to find that combo.
First, it has vanishing. When you remove the last counter, it's sacrificed. If I'm not mistaken, the sacrificing from vanishing only triggers if there are time counters removed from the permanent, thus if you Hexmage it you can't remove the last counter and sacrifice effect will happen and it doesn't go into the graveyard. That doesn't mean, however, there aren't other ways to toss it to the graveyard quickly.
Also, Cemetery Puca would become a copy of Chronozoa, but wouldn't get the time counters. You'd have to find another way to kill it or add time counters.
Followed Footsteps is an alright idea, but it's a waste of followed footsteps.
A nice combo I found with Chronozoa is with, of course, Paradox Haze, any creature with "Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +X/+X" and Mortician Beetle. You can sacrifice a creature while the vanishing sacrifice is on the stack, so Chronozoa will have no time counters on it when you feed it to your eater to give it +x/+x, Mortician Beetle will get a +1/+1, and you get two more Chronozoa. Total cash.
Amazing card. Amazing flavor. And the most amazing color to make such a card. Wouldn't survive in green, black, or red, that's for sure.
5/5
Not bad. However, note that this will only reproduce once. The tokens it creates cease to exist once they leave the battlefield. This means you have 2 3/3 creatures for 3 turns.
Not worth my mana.
EDIT: I was wrong, ignore this.
2 free Chronozoas ;) Alot of Shapeshifters work for this
Doubling Season
And Splinter Twin would also be a poor choice, since the copies it makes will never get a chance to split unless you have some other way of removing the counters, and you'll lose the enchantment whenever the one you cast it on dies.
and the only cure is MORE CHRONOZOA!
Seriously though this is a boss.
5/5 Stylish and funny!
Paradise Mantle, Leech Bonder, Cryptoplasm - - - Googolplex mana, 3/3 flyers, AND Crypto-zoas that can copy things at just an upkeep away??!! - - - Wait a minute...... YES! gg (ok, that was more than 5... but hey, I'm trying)
(Also that good old Vampire Hexmage)
It's not just a mind-boggling quantity of Chronozoas, throw in some Myr Propagators, Pack Rats, etc, etc...
3 turns later: 16 Chronozoans
6 turns later: 256 Chronozoans
9 turms later: 4,096 Chronozoans.
By the time he finally attacked with them he had nearly 3000 of them.
the rest of the match went like this
Him:"Yeah! 3000 3/3 fliers! WHAT'CHU GONNA DO NOW?"
Me:"Tapping for nine mana, flashing in 3 izzet staticasters."
After that he just got up and left.
Hex parasite. Mana Echoes. Soul Warden and Co.
Use hex parasite's X ability to remove the counters from chronozoa, producing the two copies. The soul warden's ability then activates regaining you the two life you lost from activating the ability. Mana Echoes then activates, adding mana equal to the number of illusions. If there are then at least 3 illusions, you will have enough mana to use the parasite's ability again.
Infinite Mana. Infinite parasite power. Infinite 3/3 flying giant protozoas. INFINITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chronozoa paired with Carrion Feeder OR Bloodflow Connoisseur
and... Torpor Orb
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Torpor Orb stops the Chronozoa from entering with any vanish counters... just keep saccing him over... and over... and over.
(Rules Excerpt: 702.62a - Vanishing is a keyword that represents three abilities. “Vanishing N” means “This permanent enters the battlefield with N time counters on it,”...) etc.
Sorry, but Torpor Orb doesn't stop Vanishing. It would if it was "when it enters, place N time counters on this card", but under current rules, it doesn't affect it.
Anyway, this effect is fun with a lot of Innistrad demons- Treacherous Pit-Dweller and Demonlord of Ashmouth, at least.
5/5