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"Find me cards equivalent to: Clone Shell"

Equivalent colorless cards to Clone Shell with similar imprint/exile-then-return mechanics:
1. Panoptic Mirror — Imprint + re-using exiled card, though with instants/sorceries.
2. Soul Foundry — Imprint that exiles a creature card to make token copies.
3. Faceless Butcher (not colorless, but similar exile/return creature effect).


Reason: Very few colorless creatures have this specific enter/dies+exile mechanic, but these artifacts share imprint/exile-interaction themes. Clone Shell remains the closest to its exact function.

Found Cards

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Clone Shell

Faceless Butcher

Panoptic Mirror

Soul Foundry

Clone Shell #143 Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter

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Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 5
Power/Toughness: 2/2
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  • Artifact
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Shapeshifter
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • As Clone Shell's first ability resolves, you must exile one of the cards you look at, even if none of them is a creature card.
  • As Clone Shell's second ability resolves, if the exiled card is not a creature card, it simply remains in exile face up.
  • If you gain control of another player's Clone Shell, you can't look at the face-down exiled card. However, if Clone Shell dies, you turn that card face up and, if it's a creature card, you put it onto the battlefield under your control.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 1.99 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.61 EUR 0.12 EUR
    Manapool / 0.65 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.85 USD 0.17 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Imprint — When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. When this creature dies, turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield under your control.

    Faceless Butcher #3 Creature — Nightmare Horror

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Nightmare
  • Horror
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Faceless Butcher’s first ability isn’t optional. If no other players control any creatures and you do, you must choose a creature you control as the target.
  • If Faceless Butcher exiles a second Faceless Butcher, and then a third Faceless Butcher comes along and exiles the first one, the second one will return to the battlefield. If there are no other creatures on the battlefield, the second will exile the third one, returning the first one, and so on. If no one can stop the loop, the game will be a draw.
  • If Faceless Butcher exiles a token creature, the token will cease to exist after being exiled. It won’t return to the battlefield because of the second ability.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 0.23 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.33 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    When this creature enters, exile another target creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

    Panoptic Mirror #136 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
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    EDH Bracket Attr:
    Game Changer
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    Normal
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  • As Panoptic Mirror's triggered ability resolves, it allows you to create a copy of one of the instant or sorcery cards imprinted on Panoptic Mirror in the Exile zone (that's where the imprinted card is) and then cast it without paying its mana cost.
  • Exiling a card when the activated ability resolves is optional. If you choose to exile a card, you can exile only a card with mana value equal to X.
  • The triggered ability triggers only once each upkeep, not once per imprinted card. If no cards are imprinted on Panoptic Mirror when the triggered ability resolves, it does nothing.
  • You don't pay the spell's mana cost. If the spell has X in its mana cost, X is 0. You do pay any additional costs for that spell. You can't use any alternative costs.
  • You may imprint a card on Panoptic Mirror in response to the upkeep-triggered ability. If you do, that card is available to copy when the triggered ability resolves.
  • The creation of the copy and then the casting of the copy are both optional.
  • To imprint a split card, you pay X equal to card's mana value, determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If the copied card is a split card, you choose which one side of it to cast, but you can't cast both sides.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom / 89.99 USD 27.99 USD
    Manapool 14.91 USD / 58.27 USD
    Cardmarket 6.79 EUR / 20.97 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 63.95 USD 27.17 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Imprint — , : You may exile an instant or sorcery card with mana value X from your hand. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may copy a card exiled with this artifact. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

    Soul Foundry #246 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Tokens:
    Copy

    Abilities/Keywords

    Rules

  • You do not get a chance to pay any optional costs, such as Kicker, on the imprinted card.
  • Most creature tokens have no mana cost and a mana value of 0, but a creature token put onto the battlefield by Soul Foundry has the same mana cost and mana value as the card it copies.
  • Soul Foundry puts a token copy of the imprinted card onto the battlefield. The token is put onto the battlefield, not cast.
  • The token is an exact copy in every way, except that it's a token, not a card.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 9.99 USD
    Manapool / 4.95 USD 0.46 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.61 USD / 7.24 USD
    Cardmarket 0.43 EUR / 2.95 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a creature card from your hand. , : Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card. X is the mana value of that card.