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Equivalent cards to Clone Shell (colorless, artifact creature, Imprint or exile and return effect):
1. Soul of New Phyrexia — Not identical, but interacts with exile and graveyard functions for artifacts.
2. Animated Artifact — Artifact and creature interaction, but lacks Imprint.
3. Mimic Vat — Artifact that can exile and create copies, fits the Imprint and indirect replace-on-die effect.


Reason: Very few cards have the exact Imprint/exile/return mechanic, but these offer similar artifact and exile interactions in colorless cards. Clone Shell itself remains the closest match.

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Clone Shell

Mimic Vat

Soul of New Phyrexia

Clone Shell #143 Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter

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Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 5
Power/Toughness: 2/2
Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Shapeshifter
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    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.

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    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.63 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.11 USD / 1.07 USD
    Cardmarket 0.07 EUR / 0.58 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 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.

    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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    Copy

    Abilities/Keywords

    Rules

  • 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.

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    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD
    Manapool 0.46 USD
    Cardmarket 0.37 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.49 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 — 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.

    Soul of New Phyrexia #231 Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Avatar

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: 6/6
    Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Phyrexian
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Trample

    Rules

  • Exiling the Soul from your graveyard is part of the last ability's activation cost. A player can't remove the Soul in response to prevent you from activating the ability.
  • You can activate the last ability only if the Soul is in your graveyard.

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    Tcgplayer 0.53 USD / 7.6 USD
    Cardmarket 0.61 EUR / 5.56 EUR
    Manapool / 5.73 USD 0.72 USD
    Cardkingdom 1.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Trample : Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. , Exile this card from your graveyard: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.