Minion Reflector
Most copy effects are one-shot spells aimed at a single target: this one is a standing tax on your own creature curve, charging per arrival to mint a hasty, end-step-doomed duplicate of whatever just landed. The whole design lives on enters-the-battlefield triggers. A creature with a death trigger reflects into a token that dies on cue every turn; a creature whose ETB is the whole point gets its effect twice, then sacrifices the body at end of turn. The haste clause is the tell that this was built for value loops rather than fair tempo: the copy attacks immediately, throws its ETB, and is gone by the end step, so you are renting the effect, not keeping the board. The nontoken restriction is the discipline that stops the engine from feeding itself into an infinite spiral, since the copies it makes cannot themselves trigger another reflection. What five mana installs is a repeatable, opt-in doubler for every creature you flicker, blink, reanimate, or simply cast, with the
gate keeping each trigger a real decision rather than a free reflex. It rewards a deck whose creatures do their best work the moment they touch the battlefield, and it asks nothing of creatures whose value is their persistent presence, which is the line that has always separated the decks that want this from the decks that pass.
