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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Clone Shell

Equivalent cards to Clone Shell (colorless, similar effect: exile and later put a creature onto the battlefield):

  • Mimic Vat (artifact, imprints creature and can make tokens)
  • Soul Separator (artifact, exiles a creature to make tokens)
  • Faceless Butcher (artifact substitute: Phyrexian Ingester exiles and returns creature, similar to Clone Shell but blue)
  • Panoptic Mirror (exiles instants/sorceries but not a creature; closest colorless options are very limited)


Reason: Pure colorless exiling and returning creatures is rare; most effects are in blue or black, but Mimic Vat is the closest colorless equivalent.

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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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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    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

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    Tcgplayer 0.18 USD / 0.5 USD
    Cardmarket 0.2 EUR / 0.4 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.23 USD

    Legalities

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

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    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.

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    Tcgplayer 0.36 USD
    Cardmarket 0.28 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD

    Legalities

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

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    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.

    Mimic Vat #219 Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Artifact
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    Normal
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    Tokens:
    Copy

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  • Any "enters" abilities of the exiled card will trigger when the token is put onto the battlefield. Any "as [this permanent] enters" or "[this permanent] enters with" abilities of the exiled card will also work.
  • Exiling the card as the first ability resolves is optional. If you choose not to exile it, or you can't exile it because the card has somehow left the graveyard before the ability resolves, the ability simply doesn't do anything as it resolves. Any card currently exiled by Mimic Vat remains exiled.
  • If Mimic Vat's second ability is activated during a turn's end step, the token will be exiled at the beginning of the following turn's end step.
  • If multiple nontoken creatures are put into their owners' graveyards from the battlefield at the same time, the imprint ability will trigger that many times. You put the triggered abilities on the stack in any order, so you'll determine in which order they resolve. However, since exiling those cards is optional, and choosing to exile a card this way causes the previously exiled cards to return to their owners' graveyards, the order generally doesn't matter: You'll wind up with at most one of those cards exiled, and the rest will be in the appropriate graveyards.
  • If the exiled card has {X} in its mana cost (such as Protean Hydra), X is considered to be 0.
  • If the token is a copy of a noncreature card, it will still have haste, though that won't matter unless that token somehow becomes a creature.
  • If the token isn't exiled when the delayed triggered ability resolves (due to Stifle, perhaps), it remains on the battlefield indefinitely. It continues to have haste.
  • The imprint ability will trigger whenever a nontoken creature is put into any graveyard from the battlefield, not just your graveyard.
  • The token created by the second ability will be a copy of whatever card is exiled with Mimic Vat at the time the ability resolves. This might not be the same card that was exiled with Mimic Vat at the time the ability was activated. It also might not be a creature card.
  • The token is exiled at the beginning of the next end step regardless of who controls it at that time, whether the exiled card is still exiled at that time, or whether Mimic Vat is still on the battlefield at that time.
  • You may activate the second ability even if no card has been exiled with Mimic Vat. If no card has been exiled with Mimic Vat by the time the ability resolves, no token will be created.
  • 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.
  • If a melded permanent dies and triggers Mimic Vat's triggered ability, both of its component cards are exiled. As Mimic Vat's second ability resolves, its controller chooses one of those cards to make a token copy of.
  • If the creature that dies is an instant or sorcery card that's been manifested, Mimic Vat may have a nonpermanent card exiled. You can't create a token that's a copy of a nonpermanent card. No token is created in this case.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 0.53 USD
    Cardmarket 0.36 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.69 USD
    Cardsphere 0.57 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with this artifact to its owner's graveyard. , : Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with this artifact. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

    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
    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

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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
    Tcgplayer 40.76 USD / 106.04 USD
    Cardmarket 6.26 EUR / 36.18 EUR
    Cardkingdom 39.99 USD / 94.99 USD
    Cardsphere 37.99 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Explorer 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.

    Phyrexian Ingester #41 Creature — Phyrexian Beast

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 7
    Power/Toughness: 3/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Phyrexian
  • Beast
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Rules

  • Abilities that define a creature's power and toughness apply while that card is in exile, but abilities that add or subtract from it don't. For example, the ability of Battle Squadron applies to determine Phyrexian Ingester's power and toughness, but the ability of Werebear doesn't. Phyrexian Ingester's power and toughness are constantly updated if the exiled card's power and/or toughness change.
  • If the card in exile isn't a creature card (perhaps because it was a land that was temporarily a creature while on the battlefield), Phyrexian Ingester doesn't get a bonus.
  • Phyrexian Ingester will get bonuses based on the card's power and toughness in exile. Counters, Auras, and Equipment it had on it before it was exiled won't add to those numbers.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.31 USD / 0.59 USD
    Cardmarket 0.16 EUR / 0.65 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.37 USD

    Legalities

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

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    Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. This creature gets +X/+Y, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

    Soul Separator #258 Artifact

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
    • SubTypes:
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Tokens:
    Copy Zombie

    Rules

  • Abilities that define a creature’s power and toughness apply while that card is in your graveyard, but abilities that add or subtract from it don’t. For example, the ability of Sage of Ancient Lore applies to determine the Zombie token’s power and toughness, but the ability of Liliana’s Elite doesn’t.
  • Any “enters” abilities of the copied creature card will trigger when the Spirit token enters. Any “as [this creature] enters” or “[this creature] enters with” abilities of the creature card will also work.
  • If the copied creature card has an ability that defines its power and toughness, such as that of Sage of Ancient Lore, the Spirit token will still have base power and toughness 1/1.
  • If the copied creature card has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If you copy a double-faced creature card with Soul Separator’s ability, the resulting Spirit token will be a double-faced token. The listed exceptions will apply to both the front and back faces of the Spirit token. The Zombie token will not be a double-faced token.
  • The Spirit token has the color and mana cost (and thus mana value) of the original card; the Zombie token has a mana value of 0.
  • The Spirit token will be on the battlefield before the Zombie token enters.
  • The power and toughness of the Zombie token are set as it’s created based on the card as it last existed in your graveyard. They won’t update if the exiled card’s power and toughness change.

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    Legalities

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

    Text

    , ,Sacrificethis artifact: Exile target creature card from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's 1/1, it's a Spirit in addition to its other types, and it has flying. Create a black Zombie creature token with power equal to that card's power and toughness equal to that card's toughness.

    Clone Shell Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter Normal - ~$0.41

    Faceless Butcher Creature — Nightmare Horror Normal - ~$0.38

    Mimic Vat Artifact Normal - ~$0.54

    Panoptic Mirror Artifact Normal - ~$51.74

    Phyrexian Ingester Creature — Phyrexian Beast Normal - ~$0.44

    Soul Separator Artifact Normal

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