Would be so much cooler if it was called "Copy Token" to keep with tradition of all the other cards copy artifact/copy enchantment
Lazenca_Seifus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
We need more one word instants and sorceries. I suggest "Win."
pandawolf56
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Wake the Reflections is a good card for standard if you run a token deck. Can get a 5/5 wurm token for 1 mana cost with trample, that can be nice. But it does not have many options and is limited. 3.5/5.
Taudisban
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
I really wish that they could have left the rules text off of this. Just populate would have been such a nice, clean, aesthetically pleasing card. More M11 Lightning Bolt, please.
LordOfTheFlies87
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Elegant.
Continue
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
As far as I know, the first one-word rules text for a non-creature.
Purplerooster
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
To he honest, I don't really like this. Populate is an effective mechanic, but populating this early is not going to give you time to set up a sufficient token. It's better to have populate cards that cost more mana and bring something else to the table.
RAV0004
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(6 votes)
I'll take my fogs and my indestructibility with my populate, even for the extra 1 or 2 mana, thank you.
Curlie-Joe
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
"I'll take my fogs and my indestructibility with my populate, even for the extra 1 or 2 mana, thank you." - RAV0004
My thoughts exactly. Also, those come with being instant speed as well!
VirusVescichetta
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Would it honestly have been too much for this to have been an Instant and actually become playable?
Tiggurix
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I suspected something like this card would arrive in Dragon's Maze...
SirLibraryEater
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I like this because although other ones give you indestructibility or prevent damage or destroy things, they cost more, and those effects aren't always useful when you have the mana to play them and when the effect of populate is useful, so those cards don't always use all of their effects. I see that as a waste. This, however, is simple and low-costed. Works in a host of situations.
nopemx6
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Another beautiful art from Cynthia Sheppard. :)
Winhert
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Oh it would be so awesome if they printed a promo without reminder! Just "Populate" in the center. So awesome.
Mistralis
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You can still cast it as Orzhov just for the extort trigger. And yes, you can cast it without owning tokens, obviously. Like how you can extort of a countered spell, as you still casted it. Or cascaded.
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
"Would be so much cooler if it was called "Copy Token" to keep with tradition of all the other cards Copy Artifact/Copy Enchantment."
@omni8000 These cards are different, though. For one they're blue enchantments. On top of that, they describe an artificial, unnatural process of reproduction - pretty much the opposite of this card.
Nonetheless, I would have prefered a different name as well: "Populate". Then it would have been another card in line to use the scheme "card name equals ability" - Regenerate, Vigilance, etc. I think this would have made the card even more simplisticly elegant and instantly memorable.
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Dryads and humans are remarkably similar, but one key difference is the size of the umbilical cord, which is often up to four times the size!
This would a nice solid causal Sylesnia card if it wasn't for the fact that it is sorcery speed. That fact alone makes Druid's Deliverance and Rootborn Defenses much better cards, because they populate in addition to a good effect. Just use them instead.
But in a casual environment in a deck with plenty of 2/2 knights and 3/3 centaurs to populate? I guess it would work, but if possible you really should be using the aforementioned cards instead.
2.5/5
Zuthas
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think the comments about instant speed are insightful. I still like the card in conjunction with Thune and Extort.
Artaeum
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
To make this really playable it should have been an instant for
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My thoughts exactly. Also, those come with being instant speed as well!
Just "Populate" in the center. So awesome.
@omni8000 These cards are different, though. For one they're blue enchantments. On top of that, they describe an artificial, unnatural process of reproduction - pretty much the opposite of this card.
Nonetheless, I would have prefered a different name as well: "Populate".
Then it would have been another card in line to use the scheme "card name equals ability" - Regenerate, Vigilance, etc.
I think this would have made the card even more simplisticly elegant and instantly memorable.
But in a casual environment in a deck with plenty of 2/2 knights and 3/3 centaurs to populate? I guess it would work, but if possible you really should be using the aforementioned cards instead.
2.5/5
As of M14, Darksteel Relic has joined the party
Step 2: Attack with it
Step 3: Cast this on it, sending the original to the graveyard