Croaking Counterpart

Every clone effect prices its power somewhere: in mana, in a body it abandons, in a legend rule that punishes the second copy. This one pays by shrinking whatever it touches to a 1/1 green Frog, and that single clause does an enormous amount of balancing work. Copy a hexproof, doom-dealing bomb and you keep its abilities, its triggers, its whole text box, but you get a fragile amphibian carrying all of it, not a second copy of the thing that was killing you. The result cares far more about what a creature does than how big it is: mana dorks, activated abilities, enters-the-battlefield triggers, and keyword soup all survive the transformation intact, while raw stats evaporate. Flashback is the other half of the value proposition, letting the same instruction fire twice across a game and turning a single answer into a repeatable engine for whatever your best utility body happens to be. It rewards the kind of board where abilities matter more than numbers, a narrower and more thoughtful place to point a copy spell than "make another of my biggest creature." Where earlier clones in these colors chased the fattest target on the battlefield, this one deliberately hands you the text and takes back the muscle, and that inversion is what makes it play like a puzzle rather than a mirror.