Vizier of Many Faces

Clone effects usually charge you once: pick a target, commit the mana, and the copy lives or dies with the board state it walked into. The unusual second payment here is embalm, which buys a second copy out of the graveyard at a different point in the game, pointed at whatever the best creature happens to be then. The rider on that second copy is precise, and none of it is cosmetic: the embalmed token has no mana cost at all (which reads as zero converted mana value, distinct from a printed , and can dodge or feed effects that key off cost), it turns white (relevant against protection and color-hosed removal), and it gains Zombie on top of whatever it copied (widening the creature's tribal footprint). So one card answers two board states with two clones of two potentially different creatures, the back half arriving stapled to a small bundle of characteristic edits. The graveyard recursion is the engine. A straight Clone is a one-time response; a Clone you spend twice covers a second crisis, and that second copy cares about being a costless white Zombie version of its target. The design folds a recursion clause into a copy effect without ever letting you reuse the same copy for free, and the rewrite of the token's characteristics is the price embalm extracts for the encore.