Visage Bandit

Cloning has always been a reactive act: you name your best creature, the copy stapled to whatever is already on the board, its timing dictated by the flow of play. This one carves out a second axis by attaching plot to the effect. Pay the plot cost on a quiet turn, exile it from hand, and the copy becomes a stored decision you deploy later (still at sorcery speed, since plot only lets you cast as a sorcery) without spending mana again. That lets the clone arrive the same turn you develop the target it wants to copy, its cost already sunk turns earlier, so the board swings without a fresh tap. The Shapeshifter Rogue rider it grants isn't decoration: it keeps the copy inside two creature-type webs at once, so the body earns its slot in tribal shells even when the thing it duplicates is a small utility creature with no relevant types of its own. The restriction that pays for the tempo is baked into the copy rule: it can only become something you already control, so it never steals across the table the way blue clones sometimes do, and it sits inert until you have a board worth duplicating. What plot really buys is sequencing insurance. The mana is committed ahead of time, and the clone lands on a turn of your choosing rather than one forced by the flow of play, a subtler thing than the raw rate on a 2/2 suggests.