Recur a titan to get 2(!) triggers per turn. Inferno Titan can do over 12 damage in a single swing. Grave titan makes 4 2/2 zombies. Primeval gets 4 lands. ect.
Steal an opposing Vengevine or Bloodghast to keep it from recurring, while being able to use it yourself.
Use it with pretty much any creature with good etb. triggers, such as that new Sunblast Angel.
Just take a great creature such as Baneslayer Angel.
The best part is that you can switch what's imprinted. If you stole a Vengevine on T5, and you play a titan and it hits the yard t7, you can still imprint the titan.
This card is amazing.
Rushdown
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Even if it blows up, Sun titan brings it back. This works very nicely with all the Eldrazi drones. Emrakul's Hatcher being the most effcient.
dgregory
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
3 or 4 kinds of crazy here. Wasn't it cards like this that made Mirrodan so busted the first time around?
Won two rounds in the sealed pre-release with Mimic Vat and Myr Battlesphere. Wrecked the opponent who was very ahead in the poison count (>7) because now he had to deal with 8 chump blocking Myr tokens along with my other creatures.
Little place in my heart is now reserved... I'm sure I'll try to add it where it doesn't belong due to a great first impression.
JaxsonBateman
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Insane in limited. If a bomb is played, being able to play it every turn for 3 mana is just fantastic. If not, any old infect creature means that even if you just end up chump blocking you'll still gradually wither the attacker away. ^^
Could see it being played in constructed. Despite plenty of obvious interactions, perhaps with the loss of Oblivion Ring, Maelstrom Pulse and Pithing Needle, Mimic Vat + Vampire Hexmage will become nice planeswalker removal (3 mana to kill a planeswalker, repeatedly = noice!).
Tobinator
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
had the pleasure of opening this in the prerelease, let's just say that him and sylvok replica did something really nice for me.
altheuser
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like to think of this card as a nice little insurance policy for my bigguns...
roguepariah
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Could be interesting with skinrender. If you feel so inclined you could even have skinrender target itself when you play it from your hand the first time instead of relying on your opponent to kill it. A recurring skinrender at instant speed could be fun on your opponents turn, taking out two creatures toughness 3 or less, or one creature toughness 6 or less.
robyc01
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
This card will work well with so many cards, but one in particular is the Precursor Golem which I think is going to make it possible to run a solid artifact golem deck. When Precursor Golem is imprinted on the Mimic Vat, you pump out 3 3/3 golems for three mana per turn, and only the golem that is imprinted is exiled at end of turn, leaving you with two in play. This was crazy in limited.
retaeluos
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
what would happen if both players have this and both try to imprint the same card?
gos
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
retaeluos: what would happen if both players have this and both try to imprint the same card?
I'm guessing that the active player's triggered ability goes on the stack first, then the non-active player's. Thus, the non-active player's would resolve first, and he would net the creature.
MadMageQc
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Gos is correct, provided that the non-active player chooses to exile the card (it's a "you may" ability). If he chooses not to, then the active player can.
Interesting fact : what exiles the token at the beginning of the next end step is a triggered ability that can be countered by things like Stifle. If it is countered, you keep the token indefinitely.
Bakyo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What about if i copy Argent Sphinx and i use his metalcraft ability, when he is back it stay permanently?
and the copy cards that have the ability "When enter the battlefield" like Corpse Cur: "When Corpse Cur enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card with infect from your graveyard to your hand" have its ability activated?.
Blazer_Dawg
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Bakyo I'm not sure about the Argent Sphinx question, but yes the Corpse Cur's ability would activate.
Falgorn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Regarding Ardent Sphinx: Definitely not. Mimic Vat creates a token that's a copy of it. Exiling a token means that it's moved to a zone other than the battlefield. As soon as state-based effects are checked (that is, as soon as a player would get priority), it ceases to exist. Thus, there is nothing to return.
Spet
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Imagine Imprinting a Wurmcoil Engine. Bring him back, bash for 6 and gain some life. Then sac him with Throne of Geth, giving you 2 3/3 artifacts with deathtouch and lifelink and also giving yourself a free proliferate. Do this every turn, only costing you 3 mana each turn. I think this could be really nasty with cards like Steel Overseer.
bram-s-wallace
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Allies, perhaps?
CJM2
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
@retaelluos:
The active player chooses which order triggered abilities go on the stack. They can choose to put the non-active players on the stack, then theirs on top, so that theirs resolves first, thus the active player gets to choose who imprints a creature.
Troutz
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(10 votes)
People keep looking for a combo for this card or something.
Yeah, okay, it combos with stuff. But let's clear one thing up: you don't need some sick combo for this card. It's just absurdly good. You can run it in about any Standard deck that isn't Pyromancer Ascension and it will play well, and probably even win you a game or two by itself.
Play this in a control deck. Having trouble protecting your BSAs and Titans? No problem, if your opponent removes them they're actually helping you out if Vat is in play. ESPECIALLY if they kill a Titan.
CenturyMan1979
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@CJM2:
You are incorrect. If multiple triggered abilities trigger at the same time the active player chooses what order his triggered abilities go on the stack and then the non-active player chooses the order to put his triggered abilities on the stack. So the non-active players triggered abilities will resolve first. So If you and an opponent have a mimic vat out in play and a creature goes to the graveyard then the non-active player will get the creature if they want it.
BioPrince
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
***QUESTION***
bob and tom both have a mimic vat in play. bobs turn: tom uses shatter on bobs wurmcoil engine bob says its exiled with his mimic vat tom says its exiled with his mimic vat
hypothesis: bobs turn: both bob and tom's vats trigger::: bob gets priority:::bob targets wurm::: bob passes priority to tom::: tom targets wurm ::: tom's resolves first exiling the wurm ::: bob's resolves with no target.
metalevolence
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
sleeper card of the set.
AssassinStrike13
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Here is a really good question. How does this card work with a general in EDH?
Jamesb8
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
@BioPrince your Hypothesis is correct.
Also if you do it at end of opps end step it won't exile until beggining of next end step so you can untap use it a second time and kick arse with 2 titans and 8 lands. Lol
WhiteyMcFly
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I once hid a Precursor Golem under this. That combo along with Distortion Strike won me the game. Two extra blockers and a stacking number of attackers each turn is really nice.
Panpl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I pulled this in a draft the other night and didn't even realize what a monster this is. I looked at it and thought "it's an artifact rare with a lot of text, gotta be good". And boy oh boy.
Imprint a Filigree Angel and enjoy endless life. Steel overseer, Grave titan, any red 6/1 elementals... My imagination can't even conjure what this card is capable of.
mlanier131
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
what happens if you have one and an opponent has one?
druka
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(9 votes)
so, i have to ask, if Gideon Jura uses his third ability, then was somehow killed, lets say with a doom blade, then it would be possible to imprint him on this, if i understand it correctly, right?
It is to my understanding that, due to Gideon Jura being a creature when he is destroyed, the effect would still be able to target him, and it only says that the second effect of mimic vat returns the imprinted "card".
please correct me if i am wrong, and explain why i would be wrong.
Artscrafter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@druka: Yes, it's been stated that if Gideon Jura dies while he's a creature you can imprint him onto this. He'd be a planeswalker only when you crank out a token of him since at that point you're copying the imprinted card.
Have fun with your 6/6 undamageable haster or Assassinate stick. (The first ability would be obviously pointless.)
1 Cast Flash. 2 Put Emrakul, the Aeons Torn onto the battlefield. 3 As Emrakul goes to the graveyard, imprint it. (on the stack before his shuffling effect) 4 Create a hasted Emrakul every turn for 3 mana. More if you have the mana and Voltaic Key 5 ... 6 PROFIT!
You wont get the extra turns, but you get to attack with annihilator 6 15/15 flyer(s) every turn...
Beastlygreen
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(7 votes)
When I first saw this, it did a quick read over, thought meh, then moved on. Then I looked at it again. And my jaw nearly fell off. Now I thought of all of the combo's you could pull off. Hello allies, I there's something you should see.... ;D
TheGodOfWar91
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I'm almost inclined to say this is the best artifact in the set...I mean even Mox Opal and Infiltration Lens have there limits. At the moment, I can't think of any deck that wouldn't benefit in some way from this card.
Nice Vengevine you got thar. Nice Putrefax you got thar. Nice Grave Titan you got thar. Nice...whatever creature you got thar. I don't care what it is, I just want it!
I mean seriously...you don't even have to run any creatures in your deck to make the card work. And in multiples, you can even shutdown someones deck with these, while your generating the creatures! Johnny-ness explosion!
Stupid, bonkers, 5/5.
JoralG
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"The best thing that's ever happened to me with this was against Emrakul. Clone, it's dead, it's in the vat. I have infinite turns now, thanks. You lose. "
I love this concept, using mimic clones to kill legends and then mimicing the legend every turn for 3.
But you don't get infinte turns with an imprinted Emrakul. His "get an extra turn" ability only happens when he's cast, not when he enters the battlefield, and mimicing him from the vat is not casting.
desertbuttons
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combo this with Incandescent Soulstoke and Nova Chaser. Send an 11/3* trample at them turn 5 and then imprint it for 3 mana when you sacrifice it. From the rest of the game on you have a 11/3* trample every turn for 3 mana.
CharonSquared
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@AssassinStrike: When your general dies, you can either let him go to the graveyard or put him in the command zone instead. If you choose to send him to the command zone, mimic vat has no effect. If you choose to allow him to go to the graveyard, then you have the option of exiling him with mimic vat. As you exile him from mimic vat, you again have the option of sending him to the command zone instead, but if you do, then he is not imprinted on the mimic vat. But if you do allow him to become exiled instead of going to the command zone, then he becomes imprinted like any other creature.
jhjohns
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Once i took my opponents Ob Nixilis, the Fallen. I had a marsh flatson the table then i dropped a sun titan
krumtheslow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
yeah it's good, but do we really need to have daily mtg articles on it in one week?
My favourite play with this is: Throne of Geth, Wurmcoil Engine, Mimic Vat. The combo is pretty straight forward, but I will explain. Play the Throne of Geth, the Mimic Vat and the Wurmcoil Engine, sacrifice the Engine to the Throne, gaining two 3/3 wurms, Proliferating and Imprinting, then pay {3} each turn (or opponent's end step) to repeat and build a large army of 3/3 wurms. Then just send your army and your opponent if you have'nt Posioned them already.
You are completely correct. The Gideon Jura tokens still get exiled EOT so his first ability is useless (he won't be around to be attacked, so no requirement to attack left), but his second ability is still there, so mimic vat basically becomes a colorless as sas sinate or a 6/6 hasty creature every turn, less than optimal for something as potentially powerful as Gideon Jura, but better than getting yours removed, and bonus points if you stole your opponent's. This also has the interesting quality that it is the only card in Magic which can make planeswalker tokens, and one of three that can make land tokens (Soul Foundry and ~ with dryad arbor and Prototype Portal with any of the artifact lands).
Goatllama
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(7 votes)
Such a Phyrexian card. You clone something only to have it be destroyed after living something for a few seconds: Phyrexian. The art: Phyrexian (for God's sakes, there are a bunch of Mephidross spires in the background). And yet, the mark is Mirran. RIDICULOUS. Yawgmoth is rolling in his grave.
HitTheGoat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Question about this card, when you use it to bring in the creature copy, if the card has a kicker or multikicker, can the kicker still be played, or does this not consider it as "playing" the card like Isochron Scepter does
ajpinton
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Where is the 6th star??? So I had to give it just a 5...
raadface
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this card is pretty insane, kind of like isochron scepter but w/ creatures
good combo rite off the dome Mimic Vat+ Kresh the Broodbraided and Force of Savagery Get +8/8 counters on Kresh every turn w/ the vat by keeping the 8/0 svage coming back, crazy lol
psyklone
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
What happens if there are 2 in play..........?
Imprinting doesn't use the stack does it? So theres no priority......
Smauls
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
@Druka - I'll attemtp to answer your question. Please know I'm not entirely certain with my repsonse (I'm not a judge by any means).
I believe the answer is that Mimic Vat cannot imprint Gideon Jura because he remains a Planeswalker even when his ultimate is activated. Also, Gideon's ultimate is an ability that ends at the end of the turn. Much like if your opponent ramped up Flesh-Eater Imp to make him a 7/7 and then you copied the imp using another means of copying creatures (let's say you somehow managed to flash play a Clone). You would simply get the 2/2 version, not the ramped up 7/7.
If anything, you would only get a 6/6 Human Soldier that counted as a Planeswalker - not the actual Planeswalker himself. But I stand by the "Mimic Vat cannot imprint a Planeswalker" and Gideon's ultimate clearly states he remains a planeswalker.
PhyrexianAdvocate
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Gideon does remain a Planeswalker, but he's also a creature. The problem with imprinting him on the vat comes with the wording on the Vat itself.
Gideon is a Walker when he's put into the yard, not a creature. He stops being a creature as soon as he leaves the battlefield making him an illegal target.
Talcos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@PhyrexianAdvocate: Mimic Vat works with cards that temporarily turn into creatures like Gideon Jura and Celestial Colonnade. There's no such thing as an "illegal target" for Mimic Vat because none of it's abilities actually target anything.
The rulings specifically address this sort of situation: "You may exile a noncreature card with Mimic Vat's first ability. For example, if a nontoken artifact that's become a creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Mimic Vat's first ability triggers and you may exile that card."
ninjaman98
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is the new combo card, anytime you see a powerful creature, there is always some dumb retard who puts a comment saying 'combo with mimic vat'
Blackwatch_00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Its the Ghostbusters trap...LOL.. you kill a creature with a lightning bolt or Heat ray and trap it in the the Mimic Vat. I love trapping my opponents creature cards!!! Who you gonna call?
TheSwarm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I love people who think this card makes everything better.. I've heard conversations that go...
"Can you imagine Phyrexian Obliterator on a mimic vat?!?! Good game, bro." Um, can you imagine a phyrexian obliterator without the mimic vat and nooooot have to pay three mana every turn? good game, bro?
This one is a little.. dumb.. I am not trying to make fun, just prove a point.. bless his soul..
"Can you imagine a hedron crabs on mimic vat? pay three, make a crab, land for turn, mill three?" Umm.. Can you imagine a crab?..
I am not trying to reflect any negative thoughts about this card, I just think it is silly that everyone I know seems to think it makes things instantly better. It doesnt, except for titans and Wurmcoil And Abyssal Persecutor and ETB effects.... Cough...
Philbo_the_Happy_Halfling
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
In response to a few comments here the Mimic Vat would have no problem imprinting Gideon Jura if he is a creature when he hits the graveyard. The fact that he is also a planeswalker isn't a problem. Planeswalker is just a card type just like Land or Artifact. If an Artifact Creature or a Land that becomes a creature until end of turn hits the graveyard then it's a creature when it hits the graveyard, just like Gideon is until end of turn.
Read the second ability carefully. It doesn't make a copy of a creature. It makes a copy of the card that is exiled. Any card.
For another example if you were to use a Clone (or my preference: Phyrexian Metamorph) to copy a creature on the field and then your clone gets killed if you imprint it with the Mimic Vat your Clone is the card that gets exiled and so every token that the vat puts into play is a copy of that card, which is the Clone and not whatever it was cloning, so every turn you get to clone whatever you want until end of turn. (Or if you're using Phyrexian Metamorph then every turn you get to make a copy of any creature or artifact that's on the field. Try it with Contagion Engine.)
iSlapTrees
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
run this in an ally deck for great joy! :D
hedronMatrix
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@psyklone If there are 2, and lets say you control both, you choose which one gets the card, you cannot have both get the card. If you and an opponent control 1 and 1, then whoever has first priority
jemas42
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@druka: No, it wouldn't be able to Imprint Gideon, because it Imprints when the creature hits graveyard, and when Gideon is Doom Bladed, he heads to graveyard and all of his effects wear off, turning him back into a Planeswalker. So when he would be up for Mimic Vat's Imprint, he is no longer a Creature.
EndOsiris
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@jemas42 and PhyrexianAdvocate:
Please read the card rulings. Yes you can imprint a Gideon Jura that has become a creature.
drumsmatt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Mimic vat and Myr Battlesphere; maybe the best combo in the game
Tonymitsu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@AssassinStrike13
In EDH? A general would work just like any other creature. You could exile your own general with it. Would probably only really be useful if you have some devastating come into play effect, or your environment has an inordinate amount of creature hate so you can keep bringing him back. Of course if someone blows up the Mimic Vat your general is now gone for the rest of the game.
Any sane opponent would simply send their own general back to the command zone if you tried to exile it with the Mimic Vat.
Dr.Pingas
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not to beat a horse to death, but again, you can mimic vat Gideon. It's actually thanks to this neat little thing called "Last-known in-play status", it's the same thing that allows you to gain life off a creature, should an effect give it lifelink until end of turn but deal damage with a sac effect. Even though it doesn't have Lifelink in the grave, the gamestate doesn't care, it checks to see if it had it when it was last in play. Gideon works the same way; mimic fat doesn't say 'creature card' on it anywhere, so as long as the card WAS a creature while it was in play (see: Hiddon Gibbons), it can be vat'd.
vomitron6000
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
EDH question here:
so, my friend has pattern of rebirth on his Butcher of Truth... i rend flesh that with a taped mimic vat out...
i say that i get a chance to imprint it on the vat before the creature pops into the yard, but he disagreed, saying his guy hits the yard THEN i get to exile it, causing Pattern of Rebirth to go off and letting him search for a creature that destroys my Vat.
am i right?
Jacey
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Okay, people, what happens if you combine this with Birthing Pod? I mean, u get a token which is an exact copy, including it's CMC right?
Or am I just getting it wrong?
Would be great to combo this with Acidic Slime and Birthing Pod. Pay 5 mana, destroy target artifact, enchantment or land and search yourself a Wurmcoil Engine or Titan or whatever, rinse and repeat.
I hope this works...
CatsGhost
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Anyone know how this would work with EDH? Because their commander wouldn't be exiled, but moved to the command zone. I assume you couldn't use this on them then.
deventio7
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Use with the m12 card Sundial of the Infinite to reliably exile the delayed trigger, effectively allowing you to keep the copy made by mimic vat forever.
asandberge
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
You guys are all wrong. ALL WRONG!!!
You play this, then Flash a little Chimney Imp into play. This can be done on turn three with a Dark Ritual.
Unless your opponent locks your mana, you're set. You play this effect at the beginning of each opponent turn, succeeding the draw phase and they're bound only to their hand, unless they have a sure way to draw mana.
Even if you used Sundial of the Infinite to end the turn trying to hold onto your precious creature token forever, the token would be exiled at the beginning of the next end step, just like it's stated on the card. It's just that the next end step would be your opponent's.
Superllama12
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just mean with Ichor Rats, especially against a non-infect deck
Gothicstorm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ LiXinjian : Here's a really good article explaining how and why you can keep the Mimic Vat copy permamently using the Sundial of the Infinite during your end step:
Not a person exists who didn't think of their favorite "enter the battlefield" effect creature when they saw this and promptly started drooling. The fact that you can use it on opponents creatures just makes me vow to play at least two of these in every one of my multiplayer casual decks.
Lavrant
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
If two different players each control their own Mimic Vat, who gets to imprint a creature when it dies?
when is wotc gonna learn that cards like this are just too obviously powerful. it's not like they were expecting it to be balanced.
Llama_Horror
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Kind of card you could put a playset of in any type of deck.
N3rf
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The wording sais "exile at the beginning of the end step", which means that you can create one in the end step and untap with the token still in play. This will allow you to attack with two tokens at the same time (which can be vital in some locked down situations). More importantly, it also allows you to keep the mana open (spending it only in the opponent's end step), which is why i'd probably never activate this card in my own turn.
SeiberTross
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not that this is hard to abuse, but this really combos nicely with Shifty Doppelganger
Atali
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@asandberge That doesn't work, as the tokens self exile, thus not triggering the imp's ability (unless you have a sacrifice outlet you haven't mentioned) Chittering Rats is a better choice, as you don't need a sac outlet to accomplish the lock.
Gilded Drake makes for the crazyawesomest choice : 3 tap: gain control of target creature and it's former controller gets a 3/3 blocker until end of turn.
witheringsanity
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
realized last night that the exiled card doesn't need to be a creature CARD, just a creature when it dies. i was judging for a local store and someone asked if Gideon Jura would end up on the Vat if it was destroyed as a creature. had to look it up but now i know, you can make hasty Gideon copies. not as good as, say, Grave Titan (or any of the Titans), but still interesting to know.
This, sundial of the infinite, and Phyrexian metamorph. Copy mimic vat OR Sundial as many times as you want. Or anything else, for that matter.
nellneb
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If mimic vat produces two tokens due to a card like parallel lives or doubling season, would both tokens have haste? Or just one?
blunt_shark
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
SNAPCASTER MAGE. that is all
TehRaven
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
What happens if you have two of these on the battlefield? can you imprint a different creature on each one? Can you imprint one creature on both of them?
CheeseStar
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Mimic vat, Parallel lives, and any splicer. its just amazing
Raknorak
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm currently using this in my G/W token deck. Intangible Virtue makes the tokens stronger, but I use it as a blocking mechanic. Mimic in a Mausoleum Guard with a Parallel Lives in play and get them both killed during the block, and you get to keep the 8 1/1 Spirits that pop out. With the Virtue in play, you just became a huge force to be reckoned with.
Philosophy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I don't understand the first comment about how a Titan can use it's ability twice in one turn. Can someone explain this please?
KaelDrin
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
What I love most about this card is how well it synergizes with the new Parallel Lives. With Parallel lives in play, you get two tokens, one with haste that is exiled at the end of the turn, and another that gets to sit around and look menacing. Which gets hilarious with many of those ETB effects that people keep talking about here.
Too bad the same can't be said about Heat Shimmer, however, Splinter Twin can be abused in the same manner.
thaviel
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ok in my opinion, mimic vat is good. the key part to it's "goodness" is it's ability to flop from 1 creature to the next, in other imprint cards are 'lesser' in that respect (I'm not saying this is strictly better then scepter, I wont even say it's better in general) but the fact you can load it up with the first thing and then flop it as better options open up. this aspect makes it very versatile (or flexible if you will) leading to more options.
this is my mental process behind this statement is try to compare it to the same card without the ability to replace the imprinted card with another card.
you would want to leave it open for the best option, this would lead it to being a dead card on the table for long periods of time, or sub optimal creatures being imprinted.
I think this rendition of mimic vat is almost unplayable in any non-casual environment. where this version can find a few copies flouting around in tournaments.
Halidir_Orveck
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
not to be that guy but, what happens if there are two mimic vats one on each players battlefield, who has priority?
shotoku64
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Whenever I read this, it always seems like it should have been mythic. I'm surprised I haven't been seeing it in more decks.
NinjaDog
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have a lingering question after reading all comments. With mimic vat, what resolves first: the targeted card successfully hitting the graveyard (thus triggering any effects that may happen with a creature hitting the graveyard) or the imprint itself (which would exile the card before making it to a player' s graveyard)? If the first scenario is correct, what' s the timing on imprint ( must the vat owner immediately elect to use imprint)?
Also, references have been made here regarding official rulings on this card. Where can I find that?
Theym
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Philosophy- Once as it enters the battlefield, once as it attacks.
"If the effect creating the tokens instructs you to do something with those tokens at a later time, like exiling them at the end of combat, you'll do that for all the tokens."
So it doesn't work out like that, but still a good card none the less.
Stinga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I run with with my Drazi. Early game it can use it for those delicious spawn tokens every turn. Late game it makes my stompy creatures a lot harder to get rid of.
Wasret
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Troutz, exactly. I have a mono-green deck and for a test I put one in and witnessed the immense threat this card pulled off. With some mind games I forced my opponent to have to either deal with some recurring Terra Stomper and other things, like Acidic Slime. The fact you don't need a combo for this goes to show how awesome it really is. Of course I kind of want to make a deck with more of these that is focused for something more fun and evil (for my opponent). I just think the slight psychological aspect of this card is fun, really gets your opponent thinking.
r3h0ld3r
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm a big fan of using this in my red EDH deck to keep tutoring for equipment with godo, bandit warlord.
PhoenixZephyrus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@: j_mindfingerpainter Sundial of the infinite doesn't prevent the tokens from exiling. they just delay it till exiling at the end of your opponents turn. As per the rulings under Sundial, "If Sundial of the Infinite's ability is activated before the end step, any "at the beginning of the end step"-triggered abilities won't get the chance to trigger that turn because the end step is skipped. Those abilities will trigger at the beginning of the end step of the next turn. The same is true of abilities that trigger at the beginning of other phases or steps (except upkeep)." Stifle works because it counters the delayed trigger ability. So it wont trigger. Sundial skips the first phase in which the token would exile, so the next time that phase happens, usually your opponents end step, it would still exile it as that is the next end step.
doombladez
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Unwinding clock plus any of the titans anyone?
Althom
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Slightly effective with allies, especially in the latter parts of the game where you run out of creatures to cast AND you have too many lands unused.
j_mindfingerpainter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ PheonixZephyrus: *Sigh* ... You are correct. I'm not quite sure what I was thinking when I posted that. Anyway though, you can still use Isochron Scepter and Stifle and this to make multiple copies of legendary creatures with Mirror Gallery. And you can avoid the "shuffle it into your library before it dies" ability some creatures have by playing Turn to Frog before you kill them. To me, multiple Emrakuls (if you have something like Mycosynth Lattice) sound pretty good to me. What do you think? :)
EDIT: @ doombladez:
I'm pretty sure PhoenixZephyrus has something to say to you but I'll say it for him/her: The titan tokens would only stay on the battlefield until the end step directly after yours. So, unless you are wanting to block with a Sun Titan, that wouldn't really do that much.
spirit_of_blue
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@ PhoenixZephyrus and j_mindfingerpainter:
I am sorry but I have to disagree. Sundial of the Infinite can keep your tokens on battlefield. You just can not trigger it too early. Just wait until ability from Mimic Vat token gets on stack. When delayed ability to exile token is on stack, use sundial as response to ability and end turn. This way "exile it at the begining of the next end step" ability triggered and will not trigger again. It does not matter if ability is exiled by sundial or countered by stiffle. Result is in both cases same, just timing matters.
Atogatogatog
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I think this is the best non-creature, non-equipment artifact in standard right now.
EDIT: You may exile a noncreature card with Mimic Vat's first ability. For example, if a nontoken artifact that's become a creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Mimic Vat's first ability triggers and you may exile that card.
For this ruling, I realized how insane this card is with Mizzium Transreliquat. You can copy any artifact creature and when it dies, make a copy of the original Mizzium and choose something new.
TherealphatMatt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I cannot begin to describe the fun that is imprinting Keiga, the Tide Star on this.
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This suffers from what I've come to call "Doubling Season Syndrome". Superllama12's comment on that card should explain why, if you can't figure it out. With this one, whenever you look at a creature with an interesting and/or powerful ability that triggers on entry or exit, someone inevitably chimes in, "Mimic Vat!" and I always think, "No duh." Yes, there are certainly several creatures that go especially nicely with this, but you don't need to remind us that this works with just about every single creature that has an entry/exit ability.
MMT
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Assemble the General Cannon!
Step 1 : Cast Mimic Vat. Step 2: Cast Phantasmal Image on a General, imprint image on Vat.
Congrats, you may now destroy target general for {3}.
Oh and titans are now amazing for you.
Lebeaubynight
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Interesting note: This card is a 3 mana permanent means of shutting down your opponents undying creatures.
ForgeMaster117
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The Bunker. Put a card that you need (Kuldotha Forge master is mine), Kill it your self, put him in the vat. So now, 3 drop and two other artifacts gives me unlimited search and place power. The haste is helpful. I've stopped a full assault by popping this and bringing out a Blightsteel. 1 shot robot for the win!
There's a few scenarios that i'm keen to try out in a new standard deck i'm making. I've been digging through the comprehensive rules and I think all this is possible.
Scenario 1 (Copy any creature permanently):
Mimic Vat -> Exile Phyrexian Metamorph
Mimic Vat (T): Copy any creature
Wait till end step exile token ability triggers
Sundial of the Infinite (T): End the turn
Scenario 2 (Unlimited Mimic Vats):
Mimic Vat -> Exile Phyrexian Metamorph
Mimic Vat (T): Copy Mimic Vat
Wait till end step exile token ability triggers
Sundial of the Infinite (T): End the turn
You can even cast the Metamorph from your hand copying nothing, just to make it hit the graveyard.
I would welcome rules corrections to this post as the copying rules are somwhat convoluted.
BrassBrony
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Copy Geist-honored Monk, with any number of Parallel Lives/Doubling Seasons on the field, and get ready for some ungodly strong Monks and a metric ton of 1/1 white spirit tokens with flying that don't die at the end of the turn. Prolong with a Sundial of the Infinite Seriously crying.
MechaKraken
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I wonder why no one has suggested using this to keep bouncing Snapcaster Mages out? It's a cheaper recursion then depending on Sun Titan for that,
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Mimic Vat is a role model.
Roborapter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A definite MUST in any Brion commander deck. Just wrecks the whole place up! Keep flingin Brion
mdakw576
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
there is no EDH deck where adding this does not make the deck stronger
jimi060
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"so, i have to ask, if Gideon Jura uses his third ability, then was somehow killed, lets say with a doom blade, then it would be possible to imprint him on this, if i understand it correctly, right? "
@druka, straight from the rules of Gideon:
" If you activate Gideon Jura's third ability and then a creature enters the battlefield as a copy of him, that copy will be just a planeswalker, not a creature. (The effect of Gideon's third ability isn't copied, just as the effect of a Giant Growth, for example, wouldn't be copied.)"
You're right, it is possible to have a never ending supply of Gideon Jura planeswalker tokens.
atemu1234
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@jimi what about the planeswalker rule? You'd have an empty field.
Dabir
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@atemu1234 Planeswalker rule doesn't apply, since the tokens die at the end of each turn anyway. So you've got either an unlimited supply of colourless Assassinates or 3-mana 6/6 Human Soldiers that can't be damaged.
Sootoo
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Awesome artifact card, especially if you run it in a Trostani, Selesnya's Voice deck, since you can populate every imprinted creature and make them become 'permanents'.
DacenOctavio
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Such a strong card. It serves the purpose of graveyard hate, card advantage, and is a general lose-less card all-round.
I've turned an opponent's Phyrexian Rager into an impromptu Phyrexian Arena, I've held down a Chandra's Phoenix with this, and in conjunction with Elixir of Immortality, Eldrazi Con***ion, and Sovereigns of Lost Alara, I've built my own Emrakul. (They blow up either the aura or the creature, I shuffle the aura back in, gain 5 life, and then imprint the creature. If it's Sovereigns, I make a hasty token of it and it attacks alone. Profit.)
Yeah this card is too good. I am surprised it was so cheap money wise before rotation. Maybe its because it doesn't impact the battlefield right when its dropped? Or maybe it was in the same cmc slot as Birthing Pod? Not sure.
pedrodyl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
wtf is going on in the art
Xineombine
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How is this ONLY A RARE
Jojabi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Obviously, this is amazing with infect because there is no way that token is not going to be a real pain to its opponent. But another really nice combo is Rootborn Defenses as it makes the attacking token indestructible and copies the token. Late game, that token could be pretty intense!
Tsagaglalal
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Obscure reference: anyone else see the Gloamglozer?
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Good way to deal with Undying creatures, even your own Treacherous pit-dweller. (If countering undying, you have to kill them on your their turn so your trigger is on top of the stack.)
Since it's not a direct counter to it you can maindeck it for actual usage.
Only posted to show that stuck-up Gideon Jura that he's not the only planeswalker we can put on a stick. Sarkhan the Mad deserves some love too.
jmiller77
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I had a Thragtusk under this guy once...now I know why my wife won't play magic with me anymore.
EdgarPoeAllen
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
POPULATE POPULATE, please ... just... populate.
RakdosRiot
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The Crap Kettle of Stinky Cheese, One of my least favorite cards to see on the battlefield along with its equally unfun and undercosted sibling, Birthing Pod. 2.5/5 for lazy design and encouraging trivially easy ETB abuse, something I hope WotC moves away from. Maybe we'll see a rule change nerfing ETBs? I can only hope.
FaceClaimer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
WOW. This works disgustingly well with Emrakul's Hatcher. His ETB literally pays for the ability to play him every turn.
chiknstu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I need this for my R/U Beast control deck.... Bring back my Nucklavee, or any other advantage my opponent manages to lose
Ize19
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of the cheapest cards you can combo this with is Coretapper. Suddenly, it goes from giving you a small but reliable 1 counter a turn, to providing 3 counters each time the Vat is untapped, and you have three free mana. Goes great with Magistrate's Scepter for infinite turns, and Titan Forge for the win.
Silence9
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
5/5 for one of my favorite artifacts ever printed. Love the art. Is good in ANY deck, but better in certain ones... :p
What else is there to say about this card? It hates graveyards, it reuses aggro creatures, and most importantly it reuses ETB triggers. Best of all, its cost just well enough to be playable, but not well enough to be annoying.
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And play both with Terastodon to fulfill my dream that EVERYTHING IS ELEPHANTS.
Recur a titan to get 2(!) triggers per turn. Inferno Titan can do over 12 damage in a single swing. Grave titan makes 4 2/2 zombies. Primeval gets 4 lands. ect.
Steal an opposing Vengevine or Bloodghast to keep it from recurring, while being able to use it yourself.
Run with evoke creatures such as Mulldrifter, Shriekmaw, or Reveillark for repeated evoke triggers.
Keep cards that die at the end of turn like Ball Lightning or Putrefax coming back.
Use it with pretty much any creature with good etb. triggers, such as that new Sunblast Angel.
Just take a great creature such as Baneslayer Angel.
The best part is that you can switch what's imprinted. If you stole a Vengevine on T5, and you play a titan and it hits the yard t7, you can still imprint the titan.
This card is amazing.
Little place in my heart is now reserved... I'm sure I'll try to add it where it doesn't belong due to a great first impression.
Could see it being played in constructed. Despite plenty of obvious interactions, perhaps with the loss of Oblivion Ring, Maelstrom Pulse and Pithing Needle, Mimic Vat + Vampire Hexmage will become nice planeswalker removal (3 mana to kill a planeswalker, repeatedly = noice!).
A recurring skinrender at instant speed could be fun on your opponents turn, taking out two creatures toughness 3 or less, or one creature toughness 6 or less.
I'm guessing that the active player's triggered ability goes on the stack first, then the non-active player's. Thus, the non-active player's would resolve first, and he would net the creature.
Interesting fact : what exiles the token at the beginning of the next end step is a triggered ability that can be countered by things like Stifle. If it is countered, you keep the token indefinitely.
and the copy cards that have the ability "When enter the battlefield" like Corpse Cur: "When Corpse Cur enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card with infect from your graveyard to your hand" have its ability activated?.
The active player chooses which order triggered abilities go on the stack. They can choose to put the non-active players on the stack, then theirs on top, so that theirs resolves first, thus the active player gets to choose who imprints a creature.
Yeah, okay, it combos with stuff. But let's clear one thing up: you don't need some sick combo for this card. It's just absurdly good. You can run it in about any Standard deck that isn't Pyromancer Ascension and it will play well, and probably even win you a game or two by itself.
Play this in a control deck. Having trouble protecting your BSAs and Titans? No problem, if your opponent removes them they're actually helping you out if Vat is in play. ESPECIALLY if they kill a Titan.
You are incorrect. If multiple triggered abilities trigger at the same time the active player chooses what order his triggered abilities go on the stack and then the non-active player chooses the order to put his triggered abilities on the stack. So the non-active players triggered abilities will resolve first. So If you and an opponent have a mimic vat out in play and a creature goes to the graveyard then the non-active player will get the creature if they want it.
bob and tom both have a mimic vat in play.
bobs turn: tom uses shatter on bobs wurmcoil engine
bob says its exiled with his mimic vat
tom says its exiled with his mimic vat
hypothesis: bobs turn: both bob and tom's vats trigger::: bob gets priority:::bob targets wurm::: bob passes priority to tom::: tom targets wurm ::: tom's resolves first exiling the wurm ::: bob's resolves with no target.
Also if you do it at end of opps end step it won't exile until beggining of next end step so you can untap use it a second time and kick arse with 2 titans and 8 lands. Lol
Imprint a Filigree Angel and enjoy endless life. Steel overseer, Grave titan, any red 6/1 elementals... My imagination can't even conjure what this card is capable of.
It is to my understanding that, due to Gideon Jura being a creature when he is destroyed, the effect would still be able to target him, and it only says that the second effect of mimic vat returns the imprinted "card".
please correct me if i am wrong, and explain why i would be wrong.
Have fun with your 6/6 undamageable haster or Assassinate stick. (The first ability would be obviously pointless.)
2 Put Emrakul, the Aeons Torn onto the battlefield.
3 As Emrakul goes to the graveyard, imprint it. (on the stack before his shuffling effect)
4 Create a hasted Emrakul every turn for 3 mana. More if you have the mana and Voltaic Key
5 ...
6 PROFIT!
You wont get the extra turns, but you get to attack with annihilator 6 15/15 flyer(s) every turn...
Nice Vengevine you got thar.
Nice Putrefax you got thar.
Nice Grave Titan you got thar.
Nice...whatever creature you got thar. I don't care what it is, I just want it!
I mean seriously...you don't even have to run any creatures in your deck to make the card work. And in multiples, you can even shut down someones deck with these, while your generating the creatures! Johnny-ness explosion!
Stupid, bonkers, 5/5.
I love this concept, using mimic clones to kill legends and then mimicing the legend every turn for 3.
But you don't get infinte turns with an imprinted Emrakul. His "get an extra turn" ability only happens when he's cast, not when he enters the battlefield, and mimicing him from the vat is not casting.
You are completely correct. The Gideon Jura tokens still get exiled EOT so his first ability is useless (he won't be around to be attacked, so no requirement to attack left), but his second ability is still there, so mimic vat basically becomes a colorless as sas sinate or a 6/6 hasty creature every turn, less than optimal for something as potentially powerful as Gideon Jura, but better than getting yours removed, and bonus points if you stole your opponent's. This also has the interesting quality that it is the only card in Magic which can make planeswalker tokens, and one of three that can make land tokens (Soul Foundry and ~ with dryad arbor and Prototype Portal with any of the artifact lands).
good combo rite off the dome
Mimic Vat+ Kresh the Broodbraided and Force of Savagery Get +8/8 counters on Kresh every turn w/ the vat by keeping the 8/0 svage coming back, crazy lol
Imprinting doesn't use the stack does it? So theres no priority......
I believe the answer is that Mimic Vat cannot imprint Gideon Jura because he remains a Planeswalker even when his ultimate is activated. Also, Gideon's ultimate is an ability that ends at the end of the turn. Much like if your opponent ramped up Flesh-Eater Imp to make him a 7/7 and then you copied the imp using another means of copying creatures (let's say you somehow managed to flash play a Clone). You would simply get the 2/2 version, not the ramped up 7/7.
If anything, you would only get a 6/6 Human Soldier that counted as a Planeswalker - not the actual Planeswalker himself. But I stand by the "Mimic Vat cannot imprint a Planeswalker" and Gideon's ultimate clearly states he remains a planeswalker.
Gideon is a Walker when he's put into the yard, not a creature. He stops being a creature as soon as he leaves the battlefield making him an illegal target.
The rulings specifically address this sort of situation: "You may exile a noncreature card with Mimic Vat's first ability. For example, if a nontoken artifact that's become a creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Mimic Vat's first ability triggers and you may exile that card."
"Can you imagine Phyrexian Obliterator on a mimic vat?!?! Good game, bro."
Um, can you imagine a phyrexian obliterator without the mimic vat and nooooot have to pay three mana every turn? good game, bro?
This one is a little.. dumb.. I am not trying to make fun, just prove a point.. bless his soul..
"Can you imagine a hedron crabs on mimic vat? pay three, make a crab, land for turn, mill three?"
Umm.. Can you imagine a crab?..
I am not trying to reflect any negative thoughts about this card, I just think it is silly that everyone I know seems to think it makes things instantly better. It doesnt, except for titans and Wurmcoil And Abyssal Persecutor and ETB effects.... Cough...
Read the second ability carefully. It doesn't make a copy of a creature. It makes a copy of the card that is exiled. Any card.
For another example if you were to use a Clone (or my preference: Phyrexian Metamorph) to copy a creature on the field and then your clone gets killed if you imprint it with the Mimic Vat your Clone is the card that gets exiled and so every token that the vat puts into play is a copy of that card, which is the Clone and not whatever it was cloning, so every turn you get to clone whatever you want until end of turn. (Or if you're using Phyrexian Metamorph then every turn you get to make a copy of any creature or artifact that's on the field. Try it with Contagion Engine.)
If there are 2, and lets say you control both, you choose which one gets the card, you cannot have both get the card.
If you and an opponent control 1 and 1, then whoever has first priority
No, it wouldn't be able to Imprint Gideon, because it Imprints when the creature hits graveyard, and when Gideon is Doom Bladed, he heads to graveyard and all of his effects wear off, turning him back into a Planeswalker. So when he would be up for Mimic Vat's Imprint, he is no longer a Creature.
Please read the card rulings. Yes you can imprint a Gideon Jura that has become a creature.
In EDH? A general would work just like any other creature. You could exile your own general with it. Would probably only really be useful if you have some devastating come into play effect, or your environment has an inordinate amount of creature hate so you can keep bringing him back. Of course if someone blows up the Mimic Vat your general is now gone for the rest of the game.
Any sane opponent would simply send their own general back to the command zone if you tried to exile it with the Mimic Vat.
so, my friend has pattern of rebirth on his Butcher of Truth... i rend flesh that with a taped mimic vat out...
i say that i get a chance to imprint it on the vat before the creature pops into the yard, but he disagreed, saying his guy hits the yard THEN i get to exile it, causing Pattern of Rebirth to go off and letting him search for a creature that destroys my Vat.
am i right?
Or am I just getting it wrong?
Would be great to combo this with Acidic Slime and Birthing Pod. Pay 5 mana, destroy target artifact, enchantment or land and search yourself a Wurmcoil Engine or Titan or whatever, rinse and repeat.
I hope this works...
You play this, then Flash a little Chimney Imp into play. This can be done on turn three with a Dark Ritual.
Unless your opponent locks your mana, you're set. You play this effect at the beginning of each opponent turn, succeeding the draw phase and they're bound only to their hand, unless they have a sure way to draw mana.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-articles/2011/jul/11/sundial/
Great card for creature-producing token decks!
Play with greater good... mmmm... card advantage.
More importantly, it also allows you to keep the mana open (spending it only in the opponent's end step), which is why i'd probably never activate this card in my own turn.
Gilded Drake makes for the crazyawesomest choice : 3 tap: gain control of target creature and it's former controller gets a 3/3 blocker until end of turn.
also, hooray for Sundial of the Infinite for making this card even sicker than it was!
Too bad the same can't be said about Heat Shimmer, however, Splinter Twin can be abused in the same manner.
this is my mental process behind this statement is try to compare it to the same card without the ability to replace the imprinted card with another card.
you would want to leave it open for the best option, this would lead it to being a dead card on the table for long periods of time, or sub optimal creatures being imprinted.
I think this rendition of mimic vat is almost unplayable in any non-casual environment. where this version can find a few copies flouting around in tournaments.
Also, references have been made here regarding official rulings on this card. Where can I find that?
@KaelDrin- As per the rulings on Parallel Lives:
"If the effect creating the tokens instructs you to do something with those tokens at a later time, like exiling them at the end of combat, you'll do that for all the tokens."
So it doesn't work out like that, but still a good card none the less.
Stifle works because it counters the delayed trigger ability. So it wont trigger. Sundial skips the first phase in which the token would exile, so the next time that phase happens, usually your opponents end step, it would still exile it as that is the next end step.
EDIT: @ doombladez:
I'm pretty sure PhoenixZephyrus has something to say to you but I'll say it for him/her: The titan tokens would only stay on the battlefield until the end step directly after yours. So, unless you are wanting to block with a Sun Titan, that wouldn't really do that much.
I am sorry but I have to disagree. Sundial of the Infinite can keep your tokens on battlefield. You just can not trigger it too early. Just wait until ability from Mimic Vat token gets on stack. When delayed ability to exile token is on stack, use sundial as response to ability and end turn. This way "exile it at the begining of the next end step" ability triggered and will not trigger again. It does not matter if ability is exiled by sundial or countered by stiffle. Result is in both cases same, just timing matters.
EDIT: You may exile a noncreature card with Mimic Vat's first ability. For example, if a nontoken artifact that's become a creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Mimic Vat's first ability triggers and you may exile that card.
For this ruling, I realized how insane this card is with Mizzium Transreliquat. You can copy any artifact creature and when it dies, make a copy of the original Mizzium and choose something new.
Step 1 : Cast Mimic Vat.
Step 2: Cast Phantasmal Image on a General, imprint image on Vat.
Congrats, you may now destroy target general for {3}.
Oh and titans are now amazing for you.
3, T: Ball Lightning or Assassinate. Yes please.
Scenario 1 (Copy any creature permanently):
Mimic Vat -> Exile Phyrexian Metamorph
Mimic Vat (T): Copy any creature
Wait till end step exile token ability triggers
Sundial of the Infinite (T): End the turn
Scenario 2 (Unlimited Mimic Vats):
Mimic Vat -> Exile Phyrexian Metamorph
Mimic Vat (T): Copy Mimic Vat
Wait till end step exile token ability triggers
Sundial of the Infinite (T): End the turn
You can even cast the Metamorph from your hand copying nothing, just to make it hit the graveyard.
I would welcome rules corrections to this post as the copying rules are somwhat convoluted.
Abuse it, laugh in opponents face and enjoy the game.
@druka, straight from the rules of Gideon:
" If you activate Gideon Jura's third ability and then a creature enters the battlefield as a copy of him, that copy will be just a planeswalker, not a creature. (The effect of Gideon's third ability isn't copied, just as the effect of a Giant Growth, for example, wouldn't be copied.)"
You're right, it is possible to have a never ending supply of Gideon Jura planeswalker tokens.
I've turned an opponent's Phyrexian Rager into an impromptu Phyrexian Arena, I've held down a Chandra's Phoenix with this, and in conjunction with Elixir of Immortality, Eldrazi Con***ion, and Sovereigns of Lost Alara, I've built my own Emrakul. (They blow up either the aura or the creature, I shuffle the aura back in, gain 5 life, and then imprint the creature. If it's Sovereigns, I make a hasty token of it and it attacks alone. Profit.)
Since it's not a direct counter to it you can maindeck it for actual usage.
Only posted to show that stuck-up Gideon Jura that he's not the only planeswalker we can put on a stick. Sarkhan the Mad deserves some love too.
What else is there to say about this card? It hates graveyards, it reuses aggro creatures, and most importantly it reuses ETB triggers. Best of all, its cost just well enough to be playable, but not well enough to be annoying.
The thief will enter tapped, become untapped, swap itself, and then leave the playing field.
There's your answer to Blightsteel Colossus
edit: Hornet Cannon eat your heart out.