Hmmm replaces clone, the kicker is awesome, yet costs 9 mana to make 5 replications. Whether this card is going to be any good entirely depends on whats on the field. I can imagine having 5 godsire tokens, that all tap for another 5, 8/8 tokens. On the other hand there are other 9 mana spells that are even more game ending, in general playing it more for its ability to clone one creature than the nifty yet unusuable until late game kicker.
JosirisDavid
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Freaking good card during the late game.
Unless it got hit by maelstorm pulse. =X
omnipotentj
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(5 votes)
This card is fantastic, however it's not quite as good as clone for several reasons. First, this has to target the creature, meaning that you can't copy anything with shroud. And second, once the copy is in play, that's it. Clone has more utility by being returnable to your hand to re-clone a different creature or the same creature with a coming into/leaving play effect. And honestly, the kicker cost will rarely be paid.
True_Mumin
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(7 votes)
A really good reason to make an UG Mana Ramp deck. I think with Lotus Cobra, Harrow and Khalni Heart Expedition this kicker won't be that hard to pay.
Barachem
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(3 votes)
It shines in Tron and 8Post decks the most. The funny thing is using this kickered on an Eternal Witness. BAM: Get 5 Eternal Witness tokens, all of them triggered, then Rite of Replication goes to the graveyard, the 5 triggers needs targets, one of them targets the Rite and then they go on the stack, they resolve and you get Rite back with up to 4 other cards. I want this card at least 3 times.
Nighthawk42
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.9/5.0)(6 votes)
Clones are always good. 5 clones is a game winner.
Would be humorous to try to get Iona, Shield of Emeria and 5 copies of her into play in a multiplayer game.
mrcelophane
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
While it is possible, yet improbabale, to replicate 5 Iona, Shield of Emeria's, they would all go to the grave yard since Iona is (thankfully) a legendary
Enigma
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Making copies of Iona or Godsire would be funny but those cards are also legendary...so unless someone has enough Johnny in them to play a Mirror Gallery, you would just end up killing the legendary from the copy coming into play. But with that said, this is good against legendaries, imagine playing this after seeing Ob-Nixilis pop his ugly head into play.
UltimaCenturion
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Onoz. Someone already came up with the idea to make UG for Zendikar. :< Oh well. All the stuff I'd need to make such a deck work is mythic rare, so it looks like back to forfeiting all my money on terrible cards again, like spring leaf drums.
JasonC2
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(6 votes)
The kicker cost is easy to pay if you don't pay the original cost.
"What's that, Johnny?"
Maelstrom Archangel...
And oh yeah, if you have one out, guess what the target for the 5 copies can be?
"But I'm playing blue".
Kaleidostone.
Kaleidostone at 2 mana, draw a card.
Maelstrom Archangel at 5 (or 6 to cover it with a Spell Piece if the enemy has counters etc).
Uptap, swing for 5 flying, connect.
Second main phase play this, now you have 6 5/5 flyers that each let you play a spell for free if they connect.
"But I can't connect on the swing".
Mask of Riddles for fear, or spot-remove his flyers and reachers, or just blow them all down at 4 mana with a Judgment Day before the Archangel comes through the clouds lol.
"But I can't draw the Archangel and this card, too rare to hit both."
Liliana Vess for a double-tutor at 5...
Good combo card, and if you can't get it off, its still a perfectly respectable Clone for 4.
(Yes, you are allowed to pay kicker costs for cards put into play without paying for them. This also matters elsewhere on the color wheel - e.g. Elvish Piper a Mold Shambler and you pay 3 for the 3/3 and the destroy effect, not 6. You can't Piper this one though because it isn't a creature).
swordoath
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Fun card. I put it in my Jhoira EDH deck, for fun and profit, and it's already worked out fantastically.
I was playing EDH against a friend. I cast Fact or Fiction and get my Anger into my graveyard. He casts Bribery and fishes my Darksteel Colossus. I then draw up Rite of Replication. I cast Treachery on my own Colossus, then cast Rite of Replication on it with the kicker.
Six Darksteels swinging for the face. Fun times.
Ctoaun14
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(7 votes)
This (with kicker) + any of the Kamigawa legendary dragons + legendary trigger = EPIC WIN.
With Yosei, the Morning Star, you can tap up to 30 permanents, and they don't untap in six turns. Plenty of time to win.
Kokusho, the Evening Star: If this isn't epic, I don't know what is. Each opponent loses 30 life, and you gain 30 life for each opponent. Think 5-player multiplayer. (Though they'll probably be too dead to care about your life anyway...)
Finally Jugan, the Rising Star. 30 +1/+1 counters on your creatures. Right on the colors of Simic by the way, pumping graft pretty well. And who said 1/1s with trample are useless? :)
lickthemoose
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(3 votes)
haha i love that you can get this card 4 for a buck and its almost rated a 5 thats funny
Rainyday2012
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
I was playing EDH. I kicked this on Eternal Witness, copied it 5 times with Uyo, Silent Prophet, got 30 Eternal Witness tokens and added my graveyard of 28 cards to my hand. Oh, and I had Reliquary Tower in play. I love that format.
eldracolich
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(6 votes)
@JasonC2
Your examples for kickers are not entirely correct.
True, you can pay kickers when playing a spell without paying its mana cost, but the wording of the effect has to be exactly that (such as Maelstrom Archangel).
However, this does not work when you are not actually "casting" the card, such as with the activated ability of Elvish Piper or Dramatic Entrance, as those merely tell you to put the card on the battlefield, not cast it for free, giving you no chance to pay alternate costs (meaning you can't kick a card put onto the battlefield with Elvish Piper).
So yes, you could play this card for free and pay the kicker on top of it with the archangel, but the archangel and piper's effects are not the same.
Antinormal
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(2 votes)
What about copying Broodmate Dragon 5 times ?... that gives you a total of 48 flying power... and that's without any boosts. Try using Crucible of Fire as well to boost all the dragons or maybe Sarkhan Vol 's first effect. A lot of colors are involved, true, but it would be really fun. Try going Extended and use some Doubling Season to make it ever more fun. Ok, I just got a weird Idea. Play Tezzeret the Seeker 's last ability while having Eldrazi Monument in play. All your artifacts are now 11/11 indestructable flying creatures. The only downside is the sacrifices next upkeep but it would be hard not to win after that goes off. Okay, another weird idea. 1st turn: Forest, Birds of Paradise 2nd turn: Lotus cobra, Island, Lotus cobra 3rd turn: play the UG fetchland and crack it (2 mana of any color in your mana pool), tap the Forest, play Harrow, play another Harrow, tap the remaining mana producers(leave and island and another land untapped for counters) and you have 11 mana in your mana pool. Play a kicked Rite of Replication on a Lotus Cobra and you have 7 Lotus cobras in play. Right, this combo requires extreme luck and makes little sense, but it sounds like a lot of fun to me, so I just wanted to share it. You could have about 20 mana on turn four if you play a fetcland, and this is all in standart. just Banefire for the win and attack with all the cobras(and the birds!!!). I love imagining practically impossible but extremely fun situations like that. Just my piece of mind.
PhagePoker
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(12 votes)
I'm not sure, but wouldn't this card be kind of epic with allies? Rite of Replication makes 5 copies of Ondu-Cleric, each cleric sees that there are (atleast) 6 allies in play and produces 36 life total, then each cleric sees there are 5 clerics coming into play, so each gives you 36 life 5 times, for a total of 180 life. You could do the same with any ally, gaining huge amounts of damage, counters, whatever.
Eggroll
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
@JacksJokeShop
I am also curious about this. Anyone know for sure?
JacksJokeShop
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Does this (and Clone) cause the token (or Clone) to come into play with all counters and equipment and enchants on it? Does it make the token(or clone) have their (the enchant/equip/etc) effects? or, does it just copy the creature itself?
EDIT: For example, I Rite of Replication a Vampire Nighthawk equipped with Blade of the Bloodchief. Does the token come in as Vampire Nighthawk without any of the counters? does it come into play with the counters but not the ability to get +2/+2s? does it come into play with all the effects currently attached (such as Trusty Machetes or Pacifisms or the above mentioned Blade) attached to the creature?
Now that I think about it... I can't wait to use this with Bogardan Hellkite!
Batstewart
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So if you use this kicked on a legendary creature, would all the tokens go to the graveyard after hitting the battlefield? My friend was telling me the other day he wanted to use it on my Ob Nixilus, the Fallen but I didn't think it would work quite like that.
jhimbob
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Is it possible to copy legendary creatures, since it doesn't make a legendary creature, just tokens of them?
Qazior
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This copies only the characteristics printed on the card copied works for tokens too if you're using real tokens that come for exmple in boosters. You can copy a legendary creature, however all those with same name are put into graveyard immediately, but their "enters the battlefield triggers trigger. This as well as Clone is a good way to kill legendaries, though Clone is better since it can copy those with shroud or protection.
Once got 5 Balefire Lieges with this, lost the game cuz my opponent blasted me with his liege next turn
Will this not work on shrouded creatures because of the 'target creature' clause?
lemming3
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
I use this in a (casual/fun) mono blue deck with Gauntlet of Power and High Tide to ramp up my mana. I actually pull off a kicked (and twincasted) Rite of Replication on a regular basis. Last week a guy played Darksteel Colossus on me, so I played ten right back at him. He conceded before I could even put out the tokens. This card is so much fun if you have the mana for it.
Nickkom
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Type your comment here.
majinara
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
To ask JacksJokeShop: "As the token or tokens are created, they check the printed values of the creature they're copying -- or, if that creature is itself a token, the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield -- as well as any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won't copy counters on the creature, nor will it copy other effects that have changed the creature's power, toughness, types, color, or so on." In other words: counters, auras, equipment etc all are ignored.
This card is great, but mostly when you kick it (I once played it on an opponents hamletback goliath, which turn then into him having a 700/700 goliath and my five were between 100/100 and 200/200). If you play only the non-kicked version, clone is still better.
LokiGodofChaos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Deep down there is a part of me who longs to cast this kicked on a Vesuvan Doppelganger
MrPink343
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(8 votes)
Between this and Iona, Shield of Emeria, Wizards seems to be sending a message to new Magic players that a nine mana spell should win you the game outright. Good, it's an important lesson.
gcilley
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This card is BROKEN when played with allies. My friend uses it with Turntimber Ranger... unless I'm holding Day of Judgment, I'm toast.
Uyo, Silent Prophet, 11 mana, and an animated Island are all you need to copy this infinitely.
Man, I love Uyo.
Kramerica14
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Playing this card, kicked, in an ally deck is nearly always a game winner. Let me explain, the way the rulings are worded make it so that each ally sees and activates for each ally in play 5 different times.
Copying an Ondu Cleric makes each clerics ability activate 5 times for 6 clerics on the board. 5 * 6 * 6 = 180 life gain
Same goes for Hagra Diabolist = 180 life loss to opponent
Halimar excavator = opponent mills 180 cards
any replicated ally that gets +1/+1 counters would instantly create 6 30/30 creatues.
Also, with a Harabaz Druid in play, you can play this card kicked on 5th turn (or earlier).
I see the price of this rare zendikar card skyrocketing soon. (right now it is about 68 cents)
backintheday
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Will this effectively retain the change that was previously changed by Magical Hack? Its not considered an effect but a change to the way the card reads... so...just wondering.
kenmckellar
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Quick question on ruling...
Can I use rite of replication on my creeping tar pit while its a creature? If so it'll be brutall with the landfall effects of some creatures.
ninjaboy05
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I'm just wondering if you can replicate an animated land like Creeping Tar pit.
Gaussgoat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Dude, if you copy a creature with haste, this card is devastating when kicked. Hellkite Charger anyone?! Egads.
But yes, I agree with another poster that the true power here is allies. If you can ramp the mana, this is an instant win with the right allies on the battlefield. Halimar Excavator will mill about a bazillion cards if this goes off kicked. Something as simple as an Umara Raptor can be a game winning swing when combined with this.
5/5 for flexibility and game-winning potential in the right deck.
GruesomeGoo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh, hello there Bogardan Hellkite. I better clone you 5 times and ping the opponent for 25.
rattius
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
copy kazuul warlord, with kicker it gives all allys +30/+30 and allys that gain +1/+1 as standard get +35/+35 instead, almost no surviving this on the first assult
SgfAlex
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
What is the outcome of using rite of replication on a man-land like celestial colonnade will it produce 1(5) serra angel tokens for me? will it produce serra angel tokens that count as lands as well? or is the target in some way illegal?
NinjaJeff
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I play this card as a one of in {W}{U} Control. It just wins vs. Allies (and anything with ETB effects).
I even cast this on a Terastodon once, and made a ton of elephants, while leaving my opponent, who had already killed three of his own, with only a single Forest to his name.
Gilder_Bairn
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Think of it this way: for the same CMC of Clone, you get the same effect as Clone. The only difference is that this one can be kicked. Stop using clones, start using Rite of Replication! Also, a fun thing to replicate that no one has mentioned: Lullmage Mentor. if you can get seven out, you can counter any spell your opponent plays AND get 7 1/1s in the process. "What about Wrath of God???" you might ask. Well, the answer is simple... counter it. Dur.
cloneffect
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hugely fun and flavourful. A ridiculous bomb if it goes off: I remember kicking this onto Avenger of Zendikar for 5 5/5s and about 80 plant tokens. Or the time I gained some silly life total off my opponent's ondu cleric. Or recently, when, down at 5 life against my brother's vamps, I kicked it onto his malakir bloodwitch. A 50-point life swing ended that game pretty fast. That it requires 9 mana to do this has prevented it playing any serious role in constructed, but maybe that will change once alara rotates out of standard and the game slows down considerably. That advantage of this spell - over other game-ending bombs - is that in wins you games you were completely losing, games that were otherwise unwinnable. There isn't that much around that can do that, apart from maybe baneslayer, iona, and this new leviathan from m11.
AXER
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This + Mirror Gallery + 1 Brothers Yamazaki = 6 Brothers Yamzaki with Haste each being 4/3 with Bushido1 = 24 Damage (All at once and if unstopped). Just in case you're a fan of the Samurai.
mtheoryninja
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just for knowledge. A kicked Halimar Excavator with no other allies is a 180 card mill (6 allies on the field * 6 times activated * 5 allies entering). Likewise, a kicked Ondu Cleric is 180 life gain. Hagra Diabolist? 180 life loss to opponent. This is a fun card :D
n00bmag1
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Not exactly Clone as this is targeted.
With 2 Lullmage Mentors out, this kicked is hilarious.
As said already though, it really makes allies insane.
Guest513736147
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This weekend I used Harabaz Druid to cast a kicked Rite of Replication on Turntimber Ranger. It was something like 30 wolves, and a total of six 8/8 Rangers. Madness.
JenBroness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Use on Deranged Hermit to get a grand total of twenty-four 7/7 Squirrel tokens. You have to give them all haste, though, or else pay 25 mana worth of echo costs - otherwise you'll end up with twenty-four 2/2s.
Yeah, yeah...allies are usually better. Unless you also run Opposition.
Guest1162619373
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@AXER >> That isn't right. Each Brothers Yamizaki gives all other Brother's Yamizaki +2/+2, so with 6 of them in play (with a Mirror Gallery) they would each get +10/+10 total making them all 12/11, bushido 1 with haste and 72 total damage if unblocked.
redhaiku
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh, and if you copy a land, you will get five copies of the land. It's up to you to pay the mana to activate them into creatures.
For you guys comparing it to Clone, it is almost strictly better. The exception being that Clone doesnt need to target the creature it copies, so it can copy a shroud creature if you want for example.
lordof1000mimes
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hello there Rite of Replication, I'd like to introduce you to Panoptic Mirror.
Diachronos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
With the new Precursor Golem from Scars, this has another creature type it works well with. The Precursor alone gets you 15 3/3s for only 9 mana. And with the Precursor and more Golems on the field? You're making an ARMY for 7BB.
infernox10
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would it be wrong to remind people of Doubling Season when looking at this card?
Sure, it's out of color,
But honestly, you're needing some sort of ramp to get this kicker going before the game ends,
And green is really handy at that.
Zaneshift
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This works as a kill card used against Legendary creatures, and I personally love to use them with the likes of Aether Adept (pseudo-Evacuation when kicked), Gomazoa (opponents cry during their attack step), or perhaps Hedron Crab (if I'm feel like milling my opponent for 33 if it was kicked). The only other creatures I even run are Guard Gomazoa and Wall of Frost, and duplicating those for extra blockers is hardly a waste either. Best of all, any time I face an Eldrazi deck or anything else that relies on giant creatures first and foremost, casting something like this makes up for the otherwise weak creature counter game in Blue's got in Standard.
But what really makes this card incredible is the combo potential, even just in Standard. Precursor Golem is simply terrifying to think about, then there's Leyline of Anticipation to use this as a good old fashion flash summoning creature removal, and Cast Through Time can be a fun way of completely flooding the field with creatures if you've seriously gotten that far in a game that you could manage it. A fun card, and oh so very blue. 5/5
GracefulInferno
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Easily, EASILY my favorite casual blue spell. A myriad of uses in the early-mid game, and an absolute bomb when the game drags on. Who needs to run a win condition when you can Rep-kick your opponent's Bogardan Hellkite? 5/5
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I hate getting my dragons and eldrazi replicated. That's why I for the most part stopped playing with them.
@ Diachronos isn't it more like 5x3 (for the golems' multiplying sorcery/instant effect) + 2x5 (for the enters the battlefield affect) being 25 3/3s??
djbon2112
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Guest1162619373 @AXER: Um, they're still Legendary. That effect says "If exactly 2 are on the battlefield" then it doesn't apply. But once you get 6 of them, you lose them all.
vomitron6000
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@djbon2112
the man DOES say mirror gallery.....
please read post carefully as to not make yourself look like a total fool next time....
redsoxftw
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
BROKEN
Japicx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Any EDH deck that uses blue should have one these in it. This card is too good (and too fun) to leave out. Sure, 9 mana is a lot. But is Rite of Replication worth it? Absolutely.
Polychromatic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of the most math-intensive cards in Magic. Oh, the shenanigans that can be had....
MasterOfEtherium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i wanna do this to a Clone thats a clone of a Quicksilver Gargantuan thats cloning a chimney Imp
Elthan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
So much fun you can have with this card.
If you copy a lands that's been animated as a creature, the copy with be a non-animated land with the same abilities as the copied land. So if you copy say, Creeping Tar Pit, you will get 5 (if kicked) tapped Creeping Tar Pits on the battlefield. You can animate them just as you can animate the original.
RATZGobbler
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Holy lotus, why didn't I see it before? Galvanoth could whip this thing out easy and you'd even have enough mana for the kicker. Better yet, copy galvanoth to make him less boltable
Imagine 5 extra titans. Inferno: 18 divisible points of damage Frost: tap 5 permanents Sun: bring back 5 3CMC permanents Grave: 10 zombies Primeval: 10 lands
SgtSwaggr
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Kicked with any Ally and you get 180minimum of what ever that Ally's abiity is!
For example:
Hagra Diabolist, target player loses 180 life
Halimar Excavator, target player mills 180
Ondu Cleric, gain 180 life
Kazuul Warlord, everything gets +180/+180
With Allies, kicking this means game over.
So Xenograft makes everything you control the creature type of your choice in addition to whatever else it is. Choose Golem. Precursor Golem copies any spell that targets a golem for each golem you control. Doubling Season doubles that number. With the Kicker we're talking ten token copies of every creature you control PLUS all of the golem tokens that the Precursor Golems and splicers bring in with them.
the simplest yet most awesome: just use might sliver
none of that land destruction or what have you shenanigans. just the simple pleasure of having 6 13/13s.
it also ramps rather well with gemhide sliver and whatnot
BlackAlbino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Clone w/ kicker. Why not?
FatLenny
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(6 votes)
I used this in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 to create five copies of my own Primeval Titan. By the next turn, their abilities just stopped activating because I had already put out all my land!
This is one of the best cards for casual shenanigans I've ever seen. The best part is knowing that what I did in DotP 2012 was actually rather tame compared to what this thing can really do.
6/5
Avatarless
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Whenever this gets played against me in Duals 2012 I rage quit.
Kick the Rite targeting the Season. You put 10 Doubling Season tokens into play, each as a 5/5 creature.
Now that you have 11 doubling seasons, any card that makes tokens or uses counters suddenly does 2048x what it used to do.
Then case Helix Pinnacle, paying 1 mana to {X} to win your next 20 games.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
For when Precursor Golem + Rite of Replication + Doubling Season isn't enough for you:
Riku of Two Reflections, Proganda.....
then after you're opponent is wondering 'why the hell did you just give me 12-ty billion tokens?
Cast and activate Nin, the Pain Artist for X=1.
The most convoluted Mill combo in the game, I believe.
BlackFlameAshura
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
The possibilities are literally endless with this card. i think I've seen more interesting things happen with this card than any other in big EDH games. Every time, it's a different outcome and a large amount of the time it can be game-breaking...especially when one combos into an E-Wit or Mnemonic Wall.
Player takes seven turns (six from each Chronologist plus their normal turn) and if they play smart, saves six mana on their seventh turn to stop their opponent, beginning their seven turns again.
This is even better with Jin-Gitaxia, Core Augur and Reminisce. Seven turns, and each turn, drawing seven cards. Going to mill yourself? Not with Reminisce, which you can save after you discard down to your maximum hand size and cast when your library gets low, which it will. Stop your opponent's turn, then launch into seven more, basically seeing every card in your deck every seven turn cycle, or less. More than one Reminisce will keep you able to recycle, and more than one Time Stop will keep you ready to continue your cycle as though it never ended.
I am Johnny, Combo Player.
Weenus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Progenitus has protection from legend rule, but do you think he has protection from being copied?
Cast on a Terastodon. Blew up all of my opponent's noncreature permanents, he attacked back, and I was able to survive. I then Black Sun's Zenithed, leaving my opponent with absolutely no permanents, and swung for the win.
And just today, I cast it on a Windborn Muse of my opponent's. "Hey, do you want to attack me? Pay 10."
Superfrasse
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Magical card with magical abilities.
The.Laughing.Man
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Philbo_the_Happy_Halfling With the exception of the Doubling Season. THAT was exactly my FNM deck and it was hilarious. Especially as I had Primeval Titan in there.
am802g
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@MrBarrelRoll
10/1/2009 The tokens see each other enter the battlefield. If they have a triggered ability that triggers when a creature enters the battlefield, they'll all trigger for one another.
With this ruling and using Opalescence and Doubling Season technically I think you'd get 2048 Doubling Seasons. Then with Helix Pinnacle you'd get 2^2049 which is... well, I'll let you figure that out if you so please.
Hackworthy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
There's nothing inherently wrong with Clone of course but between this, Phantasmal Image and Evil Twin... WotC certainly seems to want to kill it off.
Rawrzalicious
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No joke, I've been in a match against a dragon deck before, down at one life, with my enemy having all 20. He had out a Volcanic Dragon that had just attacked me, and I kicked my rite, got five tokens, and tanked him for exactly 20 damage thanks to haste and the flying to soar over his blockers. Also, good for killing off legendaries without kill cards. 5/5 for sure, just from that one win it gave me!
Silence9
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Buddy kicked it for 5 Primeval Titans.. =O Broken?
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Steamflogger Boss Assemble many contraptions at once! And attack for bunches!
8Netherwind8
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Can't believe that no one saw these coming... Chronozoa ... but then, they've probably multiplied to such an extent already that the entire human race are just unwitting vessels for them and all of Magic: The Gathering is simply a way for them to laugh at us inside our own heads.... HEY! I can type Shakespeare!... but I'm not a performing monkey.
I played some magic tonight and used this with the kicker to duplicate five Creakwood Liege cards. With all the mutual pumping and creatures coming into play during upkeep, it was utterly ridiculous in short order.
Instant 36 life lost by each opponent? Yes, please.
atemu1234
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Use with Joraga Warcaller and Cathar's Crusade. You get 5 6/6es each giving each other elf on the field +5/+5 apiece.
tarvofthemudhole
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Tutoring this with rune-scarred demon then using it on him to tutor five more cards and get five more 6/6 flying creatures is becomming my favorite combo. I call it "the mark of the beast" as it gives me a total of 6 6/6 demons.
Two cards make this extremely funny. Sublime Archangel and *insert any card that gives you life when creatures enter play here*. Each one sees the others enter, so.... Well, let's just say that +25 life when used is awesome?
anonymous1burger
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Use unkicked on an Izzet Chronarch or Archaeomancer to get a repeatable token maker (presumably to help defend until you get to 9+ mana), or use kicked to get back it and any other four spells from your graveyard, preferably one being a time warp, so that you have enough time to ramp or draw into the full measure of ridiculousness your deck holds.
My ramp deck was my best deck in zendikar std. Only creature in that deck was Sea Gate Oracle, but he was an amazing thing to kick, almost guaranteed another rite of replication in my hand.
I won so many games and got a ton of compliments. I had so much card draw and ramp that it was consistently being kicked on turn 4 through 6.
Just because something costs mana, does not make it hard to cast. You just got to play around to make it work. Trust me the power of this card is so much fun.
I had this used on me, someone cast it kicked with parallel lives on my wayfaring temple. 10 11/11's from nine mana. I wish we had been playing multiplayer, i'd have let him swing unbloked just to see the populate madness.
Shockwave07
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is all kinds of crazy! Using this on the X-Box results in some insane moments. You want to mill my deck with Dreamborn Muse Jace? Can turn that against you with this card kicked! Avenger of Zendikar? Give me a few copies. Even on a simple card like Archeomage it causes havoc allowing me to create a copy of it and retrieve this card from the graveyard too! Wish I had a few real copies...
Bogardan hellkite might be better though. Heck, maybe you could use both up edh.
Rifts980
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you prefer Dragons to allies, because who doesn't, you can use Scourge Of Valkas for 180 into your opponents face. And thats if you only had one dragon on the field...
If you're awesome and have an echo mage on the field and copy the kicked spell you'd get to do 3840 damage!
But what if you play Riku EDH because you are the johnniest johnny of the johnny's? What if you have a doubling season?
Let's say you have riku and doubling seasons out, lets say echo mage was put unto the field and copied under these conditons and you have three. We'll even say one has his Illusionist's Bracers on today. You play your Scourge of Valkas and copy it giving you three of those for 27 damage. You then target one with a kicked rite of replication. You are looking at casting that thing 9 times for 90 scourge of valkases. That's 8103 triggers for a grand total 753,579 damage! Also you have 93 4/4's if that somehow didn't do the trick. Playing any dragon would do 8649.
JaxsonBateman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Obviously it's pretty groovy in ramp decks (usually UGx) - while not for every deck, some people will just be happy for a Clone effect, even if it comes with a little more risk than usual (that is, that it can be countered by making the target illegal). However, 4 mana for a Clone effect is a good price, and then when you consider that late game you can put yourself in an extremely dominant position if you have the mana available - good times.
For the UGx ramp/control decks, Eternal Witness is usually pretty good as it can fetch the control cards - and if she happens to be your target with a kicked Rite, say hello to refilling your hand with value (including the Rite that you just cast).
Acidic Slime is also a great candidate as often a non-ramp, non-fast aggro deck will be quite crippled by the loss of 6 lands (the initial Slime, then the 5 copies). Getting extra deathtouchers also helps with combat.
I used this once in an EDH game against Trostani. I was Riku of Two Reflections, and Trostani had a Craterhoof Behemoth. I kicked + copied the Rite targeting the behemoth and proceeded to attack for 3,332 trample.
Tribor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My opponent once used this on Guttersnipe with the kicker. Taking 12 damage in addition to any effects an instant or sorcery may have was brutal.
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Unless it got hit by maelstorm pulse. =X
The funny thing is using this kickered on an Eternal Witness.
BAM: Get 5 Eternal Witness tokens, all of them triggered, then Rite of Replication goes to the graveyard, the 5 triggers needs targets, one of them targets the Rite and then they go on the stack, they resolve and you get Rite back with up to 4 other cards.
I want this card at least 3 times.
Would be humorous to try to get Iona, Shield of Emeria and 5 copies of her into play in a multiplayer game.
Oh well. All the stuff I'd need to make such a deck work is mythic rare, so it looks like back to forfeiting all my money on terrible cards again, like spring leaf drums.
The kicker cost is easy to pay if you don't pay the original cost.
"What's that, Johnny?"
Maelstrom Archangel...
And oh yeah, if you have one out, guess what the target for the 5 copies can be?
"But I'm playing blue".
Kaleidostone.
Kaleidostone at 2 mana, draw a card.
Maelstrom Archangel at 5 (or 6 to cover it with a Spell Piece if the enemy has counters etc).
Uptap, swing for 5 flying, connect.
Second main phase play this, now you have 6 5/5 flyers that each let you play a spell for free if they connect.
"But I can't connect on the swing".
Mask of Riddles for fear, or spot-remove his flyers and reachers, or just blow them all down at 4 mana with a Judgment Day before the Archangel comes through the clouds lol.
"But I can't draw the Archangel and this card, too rare to hit both."
Liliana Vess for a double-tutor at 5...
Good combo card, and if you can't get it off, its still a perfectly respectable Clone for 4.
(Yes, you are allowed to pay kicker costs for cards put into play without paying for them. This also matters elsewhere on the color wheel - e.g. Elvish Piper a Mold Shambler and you pay 3 for the 3/3 and the destroy effect, not 6. You can't Piper this one though because it isn't a creature).
I was playing EDH against a friend. I cast Fact or Fiction and get my Anger into my graveyard. He casts Bribery and fishes my Darksteel Colossus. I then draw up Rite of Replication. I cast Treachery on my own Colossus, then cast Rite of Replication on it with the kicker.
Six Darksteels swinging for the face. Fun times.
With Yosei, the Morning Star, you can tap up to 30 permanents, and they don't untap in six turns. Plenty of time to win.
With Keiga, the Tide Star, you can gain control of 6 creatures. Always nice.
Kokusho, the Evening Star: If this isn't epic, I don't know what is. Each opponent loses 30 life, and you gain 30 life for each opponent. Think 5-player multiplayer. (Though they'll probably be too dead to care about your life anyway...)
Ryusei, the Falling Star doesn't benefit from this as much as the others, but 30 damage for each non-flyer is a Wrath of God most of the time.
Finally Jugan, the Rising Star. 30 +1/+1 counters on your creatures. Right on the colors of Simic by the way, pumping graft pretty well. And who said 1/1s with trample are useless? :)
Your examples for kickers are not entirely correct.
True, you can pay kickers when playing a spell without paying its mana cost, but the wording of the effect has to be exactly that (such as Maelstrom Archangel).
However, this does not work when you are not actually "casting" the card, such as with the activated ability of Elvish Piper or Dramatic Entrance, as those merely tell you to put the card on the battlefield, not cast it for free, giving you no chance to pay alternate costs (meaning you can't kick a card put onto the battlefield with Elvish Piper).
So yes, you could play this card for free and pay the kicker on top of it with the archangel, but the archangel and piper's effects are not the same.
Ok, I just got a weird Idea. Play Tezzeret the Seeker 's last ability while having Eldrazi Monument in play. All your artifacts are now 11/11 indestructable flying creatures. The only downside is the sacrifices next upkeep but it would be hard not to win after that goes off.
Okay, another weird idea.
1st turn: Forest, Birds of Paradise
2nd turn: Lotus cobra, Island, Lotus cobra
3rd turn: play the UG fetchland and crack it (2 mana of any color in your mana pool), tap the Forest, play Harrow, play another Harrow, tap the remaining mana producers(leave and island and another land untapped for counters) and you have 11 mana in your mana pool. Play a kicked Rite of Replication on a Lotus Cobra and you have 7 Lotus cobras in play.
Right, this combo requires extreme luck and makes little sense, but it sounds like a lot of fun to me, so I just wanted to share it. You could have about 20 mana on turn four if you play a fetcland, and this is all in standart. just Banefire for the win and attack with all the cobras(and the birds!!!).
I love imagining practically impossible but extremely fun situations like that.
Just my piece of mind.
I am also curious about this. Anyone know for sure?
EDIT:
For example,
I Rite of Replication a Vampire Nighthawk equipped with Blade of the Bloodchief. Does the token come in as Vampire Nighthawk without any of the counters? does it come into play with the counters but not the ability to get +2/+2s? does it come into play with all the effects currently attached (such as Trusty Machetes or Pacifisms or the above mentioned Blade) attached to the creature?
Thanks for the help in advance!
Now that I think about it... I can't wait to use this with Bogardan Hellkite!
You can copy a legendary creature, however all those with same name are put into graveyard immediately, but their "enters the battlefield triggers trigger. This as well as Clone is a good way to kill legendaries, though Clone is better since it can copy those with shroud or protection.
Once got 5 Balefire Lieges with this, lost the game cuz my opponent blasted me with his liege next turn
However, in my mind, this belongs to an ally deck
"As the token or tokens are created, they check the printed values of the creature they're copying -- or, if that creature is itself a token, the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield -- as well as any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won't copy counters on the creature, nor will it copy other effects that have changed the creature's power, toughness, types, color, or so on."
In other words: counters, auras, equipment etc all are ignored.
This card is great, but mostly when you kick it (I once played it on an opponents hamletback goliath, which turn then into him having a 700/700 goliath and my five were between 100/100 and 200/200). If you play only the non-kicked version, clone is still better.
Man, I love Uyo.
Copying an Ondu Cleric makes each clerics ability activate 5 times for 6 clerics on the board. 5 * 6 * 6 = 180 life gain
Same goes for Hagra Diabolist = 180 life loss to opponent
Halimar excavator = opponent mills 180 cards
any replicated ally that gets +1/+1 counters would instantly create 6 30/30 creatues.
Also, with a Harabaz Druid in play, you can play this card kicked on 5th turn (or earlier).
I see the price of this rare zendikar card skyrocketing soon. (right now it is about 68 cents)
Can I use rite of replication on my creeping tar pit while its a creature? If so it'll be brutall with the landfall effects of some creatures.
But yes, I agree with another poster that the true power here is allies. If you can ramp the mana, this is an instant win with the right allies on the battlefield. Halimar Excavator will mill about a bazillion cards if this goes off kicked. Something as simple as an Umara Raptor can be a game winning swing when combined with this.
5/5 for flexibility and game-winning potential in the right deck.
Some favorites:
Turntimber Ranger: 5 7/7's and 25 2/2's.
Malakir Bloodwitch: Opponent loses 25 life.
Kazuul Warlord: 5 28/28's.
Halimar Excavator: Mill 125 cards.
Ondu Cleric: Gain 125 life.
Captain of the Watch: 5 7/7's and 15 6/6's, all with Vigilance.
Overgrown Battlement: 5 0/4 walls that each have {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}{G} to your mana pool.
I even cast this on a Terastodon once, and made a ton of elephants, while leaving my opponent, who had already killed three of his own, with only a single Forest to his name.
for the same CMC of Clone, you get the same effect as Clone. The only difference is that this one can be kicked.
Stop using clones, start using Rite of Replication!
Also, a fun thing to replicate that no one has mentioned: Lullmage Mentor. if you can get seven out, you can counter any spell your opponent plays AND get 7 1/1s in the process. "What about Wrath of God???" you might ask. Well, the answer is simple... counter it. Dur.
24 Damage (All at once and if unstopped). Just in case you're a fan of the Samurai.
With 2 Lullmage Mentors out, this kicked is hilarious.
As said already though, it really makes allies insane.
Yeah, yeah...allies are usually better. Unless you also run Opposition.
Everyone loves the guy with Swords to Plowshares at that point :P
For you guys comparing it to Clone, it is almost strictly better. The exception being that Clone doesnt need to target the creature it copies, so it can copy a shroud creature if you want for example.
Sure, it's out of color,
But honestly, you're needing some sort of ramp to get this kicker going before the game ends,
And green is really handy at that.
But what really makes this card incredible is the combo potential, even just in Standard. Precursor Golem is simply terrifying to think about, then there's Leyline of Anticipation to use this as a good old fashion flash summoning creature removal, and Cast Through Time can be a fun way of completely flooding the field with creatures if you've seriously gotten that far in a game that you could manage it. A fun card, and oh so very blue. 5/5
20 tokens? YES PLEASE!
isn't it more like 5x3 (for the golems' multiplying sorcery/instant effect) + 2x5 (for the enters the battlefield affect) being 25 3/3s??
the man DOES say mirror gallery.....
please read post carefully as to not make yourself look like a total fool next time....
If you copy a lands that's been animated as a creature, the copy with be a non-animated land with the same abilities as the copied land.
So if you copy say, Creeping Tar Pit, you will get 5 (if kicked) tapped Creeping Tar Pits on the battlefield. You can animate them just as you can animate the original.
Inferno: 18 divisible points of damage
Frost: tap 5 permanents
Sun: bring back 5 3CMC permanents
Grave: 10 zombies
Primeval: 10 lands
For example:
Hagra Diabolist, target player loses 180 life
Halimar Excavator, target player mills 180
Ondu Cleric, gain 180 life
Kazuul Warlord, everything gets +180/+180
With Allies, kicking this means game over.
So Xenograft makes everything you control the creature type of your choice in addition to whatever else it is. Choose Golem. Precursor Golem copies any spell that targets a golem for each golem you control. Doubling Season doubles that number.
With the Kicker we're talking ten token copies of every creature you control PLUS all of the golem tokens that the Precursor Golems and splicers bring in with them.
Now all you need is Aceticism to keep Unsummon from becomming Wrath of God.
Oh yeah, throw in Coat of Arms for extra fun.
just use might sliver
none of that land destruction or what have you shenanigans. just the simple pleasure of having 6 13/13s.
it also ramps rather well with gemhide sliver and whatnot
This is one of the best cards for casual shenanigans I've ever seen. The best part is knowing that what I did in DotP 2012 was actually rather tame compared to what this thing can really do.
6/5
Kick the Rite targeting the Season. You put 10 Doubling Season tokens into play, each as a 5/5 creature.
Now that you have 11 doubling seasons, any card that makes tokens or uses counters suddenly does 2048x what it used to do.
Then case Helix Pinnacle, paying 1 mana to {X} to win your next 20 games.
Riku of Two Reflections, Proganda.....
then after you're opponent is wondering 'why the hell did you just give me 12-ty billion tokens?
Cast and activate Nin, the Pain Artist for X=1.
The most convoluted Mill combo in the game, I believe.
Lighthouse Chronologist, Rite of Replication, Time Stop.
Player takes seven turns (six from each Chronologist plus their normal turn) and if they play smart, saves six mana on their seventh turn to stop their opponent, beginning their seven turns again.
This is even better with Jin-Gitaxia, Core Augur and Reminisce. Seven turns, and each turn, drawing seven cards. Going to mill yourself? Not with Reminisce, which you can save after you discard down to your maximum hand size and cast when your library gets low, which it will. Stop your opponent's turn, then launch into seven more, basically seeing every card in your deck every seven turn cycle, or less. More than one Reminisce will keep you able to recycle, and more than one Time Stop will keep you ready to continue your cycle as though it never ended.
I am Johnny, Combo Player.
Progenitus may not have protection from being copied but he does have protection from blue, meaning that you cannot target him with this spell.
Six Grave Titans. 12 Zombies. Oh, and there was an Evil Twin involved as well, so 7 and 14.
Cast on my opponent's Birds of Paradise to prevent him from doing much when he cast Ruination.
Cast on a Terastodon. Blew up all of my opponent's noncreature permanents, he attacked back, and I was able to survive. I then Black Sun's Zenithed, leaving my opponent with absolutely no permanents, and swung for the win.
And just today, I cast it on a Windborn Muse of my opponent's. "Hey, do you want to attack me? Pay 10."
@MrBarrelRoll
10/1/2009 The tokens see each other enter the battlefield. If they have a triggered ability that triggers when a creature enters the battlefield, they'll all trigger for one another.
With this ruling and using Opalescence and Doubling Season technically I think you'd get 2048 Doubling Seasons. Then with Helix Pinnacle you'd get 2^2049 which is... well, I'll let you figure that out if you so please.
Assemble many contraptions at once! And attack for bunches!
Also, if you're really mean or have a score to settle with your opponent, use Mirror Gallery and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite.
Instant 36 life lost by each opponent? Yes, please.
125 Life
The rest was epicness.
I won so many games and got a ton of compliments. I had so much card draw and ramp that it was consistently being kicked on turn 4 through 6.
Just because something costs
Copy
Copy
Copy
Copy
You want to mill my deck with Dreamborn Muse Jace? Can turn that against you with this card kicked!
Avenger of Zendikar? Give me a few copies.
Even on a simple card like Archeomage it causes havoc allowing me to create a copy of it and retrieve this card from the graveyard too!
Wish I had a few real copies...
Iona, Shield of Emeria
This, kicked.
Suck it =D
4/5 Stars
I'll just leave you guys at that.
Bogardan hellkite might be better though. Heck, maybe you could use both up edh.
If you're awesome and have an echo mage on the field and copy the kicked spell you'd get to do 3840 damage!
But what if you play Riku EDH because you are the johnniest johnny of the johnny's? What if you have a doubling season?
Let's say you have riku and doubling seasons out, lets say echo mage was put unto the field and copied under these conditons and you have three. We'll even say one has his Illusionist's Bracers on today. You play your Scourge of Valkas and copy it giving you three of those for 27 damage. You then target one with a kicked rite of replication. You are looking at casting that thing 9 times for 90 scourge of valkases. That's 8103 triggers for a grand total 753,579 damage! Also you have 93 4/4's if that somehow didn't do the trick. Playing any dragon would do 8649.
For the UGx ramp/control decks, Eternal Witness is usually pretty good as it can fetch the control cards - and if she happens to be your target with a kicked Rite, say hello to refilling your hand with value (including the Rite that you just cast).
Acidic Slime is also a great candidate as often a non-ramp, non-fast aggro deck will be quite crippled by the loss of 6 lands (the initial Slime, then the 5 copies). Getting extra deathtouchers also helps with combat.