i love this thing, its fun as hell when playing casual. do to the way it reads you can choose ANY creature type and ANY color. just pick your one of your friends name for a creature type then pink lol theyll be ***ed. but on a serious note Riptide Replicator is great with Reaper King in a scarecrow deck.
Tommy9898
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(6 votes)
In EDH, If you don't have a tribal theme, pick black spirit. That way they have the highest likelihood to survive spot removal. (Bonus points if your commander is rosheen meanderer)
WhiteyMcFly
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
notice in the art the replicator is replicating a sliver. just sayin.
HairlessThoctar
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(6 votes)
@WhiteMcFly
That was actually a very big deal back in the day. If you'll not, Onslaught did not have any slivers in it, but this card does in fact show a sliver being replicated.
Anyone observant enough would then be able to put two and two together and realize "Hell yes!/God no! Legions will have Slivers in it!"
vomitron6000
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@Mortal-Rot
105.4. If a player is asked to choose a color, he or she must choose one of the five colors. "Multicolored" is not a color. Neither is "colorless."
you have to pick a color of the 5 in magic, i had an arguement with a friend over this rule awhile ago. he wouldn't beleave me that you couldn't pick pink...
D0UBLE_A
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This would be an abomination in a sliver deck if you had a Gemhide Sliver in play.
garabor
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
the art on the card shows them filling the mold of a sliver but since the card has the word riptide in it it makes me think of wizards. just an idea.
Dragon_Nut
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Whether you can pick pink depends on how casual of a game you're playing. TECHNICALLY you can't pick Pink of course, but if it's a casual game and it makes it more fun to be able to produce Crimson Cows, then go right ahead.
RATZGobbler
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is the only way I can get a blue goblin, a black angel or a green zombie or anything for that matter. You want to destroy my 9/9 with a doom blade? Well it's a good thing I made it black. Onslaught rocked!!
Wraique
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Might be good in a blue deck with Grand Architect. Blue creatures ramp into it and can pay for its ability.
Zorgrath
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Because tokens take on the same name as their creature type, could this card be combo-ed with Relentless Rats? Technically the Tokens created would all be called Relentless Rats if you chose Relentless Rats as the creature type. Wouldn't the same then go for the Brothers Yamazaki?
@Zorgrath: Relentless Rats is not a creature type. You can choose "Rat", but "Rats" and "Relentless" are both illegal, so it wouldn't work.
Also, this bears some fitting resemblance to Ignite the Cloneforge! from the Archenemy set.
Renfield286
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you use contagen engine (or any proliferate card) to put more charge counters on this card, do the creature tokens already in play get bigger?
I know the answer is probably no, but im just checking.
Ryukami875
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Renfield No the tokens in play would not be boosted if more charge counters are added... Not exactly sure how to put it in all technical terms but I imagine it would be something along the lines of it creates an X/X token at the time, and the value of X is decided and kept at the time at which the ability is activated... Usually when things are actively changing integers, it specifically says so (i.e. Blah Blah's power and toughness are X, where X is the number of cards in your hand, etc etc).
Paolino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It is very expensive, but with proliferate around this card can be a niche playable creature generation with the right mana acceleration.
DaJoshMaster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Zorgrath - GrimjawxRULES's point is correct, you have to choose a legal creature type. Relentless Rats doesn't fall under this for much the same reasons that Banana Split don't. :P
(Although I'm sure your friends would be fine with a Banana Split tribal in casual. :P)
majinara
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Well, creating 10/10 green sand tokens with it is fun.
"Finally we completed it. This immense machine! It can create anything we want! Let's switch it on and see what happens! .... .... sand?!? Oh god no, it bit me!"
aboblyndsae
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Extremely versatile and extremely fun to play—probably one of my top 5 Magic cards of all time. The very first thing I ever used in was a deck built around Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore!
ElliotSternberg
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I played it with X being 45 in my Rasputin EDH and named Child with color Black. Thus I was outputting 45/45 Black Children.
You could dismember a black child and it can still kill you in one hit. Kids these days, right? >.<
5/5 for humor.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
At last! I have a Germ token engine!
Coglineerro
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Back in the day I always chose color=black, type=guy to make my X/X token black guys. But rules have changed...
NARFNra
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Once I had a deck designed to use Cloudpost and Candelabra of Tawnos to make a bs level amount of mana. It had a lot of {X} based finishers such as Sands of Delirium or Snake Basket.
The greatest game I ever had though ended up with me dumping 68 mana into this and playing a 60/60 green Brushwagg token. I don't care how easy it was to chump block. 60/60 Brushwagg.
Lord_of_Gelectrodes
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@art Uh-oh.
SilentOppressor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I miss when you could make blue Berrypies.
IamjustnotCreative
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Finally a card that can make Blue Meanies
AzureLazuline
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So I was playing a big 4-player Commander game and someone threw this card down. I had no idea what kind of deck he was playing, so I knew that his choice for Riptide Replicator would clue me in to what I was up against.
"I choose red Advisor"
No amount of past experience could prepare me for that tribal deck.
Pongdok
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you are using this for a tribal deck, then I am afraid you have no sense of adventure. Want a bunch of really big, oddly coloured beebles, sponges, or fish? Want to play King Kong? Choose ape. Godzilla? Lizard. Gamera? Turtle. (A little more work making it fly, though.) This is great. Spice up your infinite mana deck. 5/5
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No! Bad octopus aliens! We do NOT make more slivers!
ZaisConsultant
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'll just have X = 3, choose Red Shark, and leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXbXFJxltyo
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(Bonus points if your commander is rosheen meanderer)
That was actually a very big deal back in the day.
If you'll not, Onslaught did not have any slivers in it, but this card does in fact show a sliver being replicated.
Anyone observant enough would then be able to put two and two together and realize "Hell yes!/God no! Legions will have Slivers in it!"
105.4. If a player is asked to choose a color, he or she must choose one of the five colors. "Multicolored" is not a color. Neither is "colorless."
you have to pick a color of the 5 in magic, i had an arguement with a friend over this rule awhile ago. he wouldn't beleave me that you couldn't pick pink...
Also, this bears some fitting resemblance to Ignite the Cloneforge! from the Archenemy set.
I know the answer is probably no, but im just checking.
No the tokens in play would not be boosted if more charge counters are added... Not exactly sure how to put it in all technical terms but I imagine it would be something along the lines of it creates an X/X token at the time, and the value of X is decided and kept at the time at which the ability is activated... Usually when things are actively changing integers, it specifically says so (i.e. Blah Blah's power and toughness are X, where X is the number of cards in your hand, etc etc).
(Although I'm sure your friends would be fine with a Banana Split tribal in casual. :P)
"Finally we completed it. This immense machine! It can create anything we want! Let's switch it on and see what happens! .... .... sand?!? Oh god no, it bit me!"
You could dismember a black child and it can still kill you in one hit. Kids these days, right? >.<
5/5 for humor.
The greatest game I ever had though ended up with me dumping 68 mana into this and playing a 60/60 green Brushwagg token. I don't care how easy it was to chump block. 60/60 Brushwagg.
Uh-oh.
"I choose red Advisor"
No amount of past experience could prepare me for that tribal deck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXbXFJxltyo