Faerie Artisans
Most clone effects ask you to choose; this one lets your opponents choose for you, then punishes them for it. The Mimic Vat lineage built a graveyard-and-exile engine around the idea that an opponent's best creature should also be yours, but it required a sacrifice trigger and a mana activation to keep the imprint live. Here the trigger is the opponent's own development: every nontoken creature they play hands you a copy, recast as an artifact, while the previous loaner gets exiled. The "exile all other tokens" clause is the tax that keeps the effect to a single body at a time, which turns it from a runaway value pile into a rolling reaction. The artifact rider is the cleverest piece of the design: stamping every copy with the artifact type opens it to artifact-matters payoffs and removal alike, a deliberate side door that the base clone idea never had. What it produces is a strange political pressure at the table, since the strongest thing an opponent can deploy becomes the strongest thing you control, and only until the next one lands. It rewards a table full of creatures without you needing to commit any of your own beyond a 2/2 flyer holding the engine together. The body is fragile and the effect does nothing in a creature-light game, but against opponents building real boards it converts their best decisions into yours, one swap at a time.
