Mocking Doppelganger
Clone effects have always been about theft: you copy the best thing across the table and add it to your own board. This one adds a wrinkle that only makes sense in a multiplayer world. The copy comes with a self-referential clause that goads every other creature sharing its name, which means the moment you flash it in as a copy of some opponent's threat, the original turns hostile toward the table and is forbidden from swinging at you. You are not just stealing a body; you are conscripting the original into attacking your other opponents. Flash is what sharpens it: hold up the clone as a combat trick, wait to see which of your opponents commits the scarier creature, and copy it on their turn so the goad lands on their attack step rather than yours. It reframes what a copy effect is for. In a duel, goading your single opponent's creature just forces it to attack you, so the rider is nearly dead weight; the card only comes alive at a table where "attack a player other than you" has somewhere else to point. It is a political clone, built for the specific geometry of a three- or four-way board where turning a rival's best creature against the person next to them is worth more than the copy itself.

