Multiversal Recruitment

Cloning has always run headlong into the legend rule: copy a legend you control, and one of the pair dies immediately. The usual workaround is to point a copy effect at something that was never legendary to begin with, which quietly excludes some of the most valuable creatures on the table. This spell folds the exception into itself. The token drops the legendary supertype on creation, so the copy sticks around next to the original, and you can safely duplicate exactly the creatures you most wanted to copy. That is what the card is built around: a copy effect for a context where the best targets are legends by definition. Flashback answers the standard complaint about copy spells, which is that they go stale in the late game once the board has already resolved. Casting it a second time from the graveyard, at the steeper cost, turns a one-shot into a two-shot value engine and lets a single card duplicate two different creatures across a game. It only reads the board you already have, so an empty field gives it nothing to work with. What it settles is an old friction between clone effects wanting the biggest bodies and the legend rule forbidding precisely those.