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This card is sooooo underestimated. In an angel deck this card is great. For example, you can imprint as many creatures as you want. Imagine Akroma Angel of Wrath, Akroma Angel of Fury, Bane Slayer Angel, and Voice of All. So it's possible for Death-Mask Duplicate to have protection from all colors, flying, haste, vigilance, trample, protection from Demons and Dragons. Because angels have so many abilities that Death-Mask Duplicate can imprint it is an ideal choice for an angel deck. (notice WOTC tries to give players that hint because it is duplicating Luminous Angel.)

@DICK

When's the last time you had a Progenitus in your graveyard?

Target yourself with Sudden Spoiling to sacrifice your Progenitus!

Or you could just attack with it, you know.

"Oh dang, you just removed Baneslayer Angel, and all those other cards?
And I can't target it with any of my removal?
Oh, let me kick this Gatekeeper of Malikir."
Haha, nah, this is a very good card.
I've just been feeling that with all the sacrifice-heavy cards out lately,
Things like "Shroud" and "protection" seem to just be words.
This is the bomb after you've milled yourself for a while.

The great thing about this card is that if you have more than one you can use them to imprint each other. So the abilities are never actually lost. This is only because it reads "As long as imprinted creature has flying Death-Mask Duplicate has flying."

If it were a 6-drop that could imprint cards from any graveyard, this might be pretty fun.

Should get errata to copy every ability creatures can have, not only the listed ones... other then that nice card

@Viceversa78, no you can't. The Duplicant only gets those abilities while it's a permanent (i.e. on the battlefield). Once it leaves the battlefield, those imprints become totally unassociated with it and are simply exiled. That means a Duplicant in the graveyard has no abilities beyond the imprint one, so imprinting it with another Duplicant achieves nothing.

Concerted Effort?

This is a stupid question but How would this work with an imprinted mirror golem? Would it have protection of all I printed types now? Or mirror golems pro ability only work on it's own imprint?

A clever little card, handy in the right deck and can turn your smaller, versatile creatures into a large, even more versatile creature.

@ChainedNBeaten

It's the same as the idea of imprinting Death-Mask Duplicant with another Death-Mask Duplicant...

once Mirror Golem dies, it loses it's protection, as it is no longer a permanent. Note that Death-Mask Duplicant says creature card. The card doesn't have any protection.

I prefer cairn wanderer

Should be errata to include new keywords, like hexproof, intimidate, deathtouch, shroud, vigilance, and lifelink. This is because the card was designed to cover all of the basic abilities, I think an errata would keep the same spirit going on, and if the abilities were key worded back then, I would bet anything they would have been included.

Pop quiz puzzle: assuming you want DMD to have all of these abilities, including all available forms of landwalk and protection from every card in the game, what's the fewest number of creatures you could exile to accomplish this without Progenitus?

(You can use Humility to get Progenitus to die and remain in the graveyard, so Progenitus is technically usable...)

Why is everyone overlooking the, y'know, DOUBLE STRIKE? It's one of the easiest creatures to get evasive double strike on. If you can get a Dragon Tyrant in your yard to imprint, this will do some serious work.

I'm gonna imprint Wonder! and Brawn, and Anger, and Filth and Valor...wait a minute...


Yes, Cairn Wanderer can acquire more abilities and doesn't have to exile for them, but this is colorless, slightly bigger, and besides, this came first.

@Salient I'm not sure how you intended to treat redundant abilities, such as first strike when duplicant has doublestrike. Therefore I'll make two counts.

Dragon Tyrant and Lightning Reaver give everything but landwalk protection and first strike. Dryad Sophisticate and 4 other creatures give duplicant nonbasic landwalk and all 5 basic types. That's 7 creatures so far.

Snow musher, livonya silone and desert nomads as well asLegions of Lim-Dûl and Rime Dryad provide redundant forms of landwalk and first strike.

Progenitus would give every possible type of protection but you nixed that, so, Iridescent Angel gives protection from each color, Mistmeadow skulk protects from costs 3 or greater. Tel-Jilad Archers , Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts,Azorious First-Wing Horizon Drake give protection from non-planeswalker permanents, and would give reach to cairn wanderer. Baneslayer Angel, Elite Inquisitor, Fallen Cleric, Foothill Guide, Kitsune riftwalker, Nath's Buffoon, Riptide biologist, Shoreline Raider, and Tsabo Tavoc give protections from various tribes as well as Arcane spells and Legendary Creatures.

Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Harbinger of Spring , Guardian of the Guildpact, and enemy of the Guildpact provide additional redundant forms of protection.

In Un-Sets Frazzled Editor Old Fogey and possibly Hurloon Wrangler would also work.

In summary, depending on whether Progenitus is included and whether redundant abilities are needed you could fully power death-mask duplicant with 8 or 29-30 creatures. adding 2-3 un-set cards brings the Grand total to 33 possible abilities.

Use in a Necrotic ooze deck so your Ooze can also get the imprint ability to get other abilities that are not activated.

Although you will lose the activated ability of imprinted creature of course.