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Haunting Imitation

Sorcery2 generic manaBlue mana

The design gamble here is legible in the failure clause. Most top-of-library payoffs either whiff quietly or bury the downside in a smaller effect; this one refuses to be dead. If nobody's top card is a creature, it bounces itself back to your hand, so the worst case is a three-mana investment you get to try again later rather than a wasted card. That safety valve is what lets the ceiling stay greedy: every creature revealed across the table becomes a 1/1 flying Spirit copy, keeping the original's abilities and other types while shedding its stats. The token clause does the interesting work, because it copies each opponent's top card as readily as your own. The shared reveal is the variance you accept for the reach; you are gambling that the reveal favors you, or that a 1/1 flier wearing an opponent's abilities is a fine consolation prize. It rewards a library stacked with high-value creatures whose text lines matter more than their bodies (enters-the-battlefield engines, keyword grants, activated abilities), since the copy keeps the words and throws away the muscle. What you are really building around is not a big creature but a creature whose printed text survives being shrunk to a 1/1 with wings.

Haunting Imitation (voc)
VOC · #13rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Each player reveals the top card of their library. For each creature card revealed this way, 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. If no creature cards were revealed this way, return Haunting Imitation to its owner's hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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