Supplant Form

Cloning at instant speed is the rare part, but the bounce stapled to the front is the design choice that separates this from a straight copy spell. Most clone effects make a token and leave the original intact, growing one side of the board. This one trades that for tempo: the original creature goes back to its owner's hand, and the token you keep is the copy. Pointed at your own threat, it dodges a removal spell on the stack and hands you a fresh enters-the-battlefield trigger when the copy arrives, while leaving the summoning-sick original safe in hand to recast later. Pointed at an opponent, it is a one-card swing that strips their best creature and gives you a duplicate of it, at the cost of letting them replay what you returned. The six-mana price is steep for what is functionally removal-plus-clone, and that cost is the honest accounting for stacking two board-warping effects in one card. The instant timing is what justifies the rate: held up at the end of a turn or in response to a combat trigger, it converts a defensive answer into an offensive copy inside a single window, which sorcery-speed cloning could never do. The catch is that any creature only worth bouncing (something already enchanted, counter-laden, or attacking) loses all of that when it returns to hand, so the copy you make is the clean printed version, not the dressed-up board state you targeted.