Magic: The Gathering's Vesuvian Duplimancy is a remarkably powerful duplication tool for Commander
As Dominaria United spoilers continue for Magic: The Gathering, a rather interesting card has appeared: Vesuvian Duplimancy. While this card may be too slow for widespread use in Magic: The Gathering’s Standard meta, it could be just the thing a variety of Commander decks need to spice up their lives.
It’s interesting that this card does not feature a “once per turn” wording, like many other powerful cards in this expansion. This may have been balanced out by its casting cost, but here’s what the card can and cannot do.
It’s not uncommon to see blue spells in Magic: The Gathering that clone or duplicate other cards. This is a really interesting way to play the game, and can often be quite frustrating for other players. It’s also worth noting that this will be fun in more than just Mono-Blue colored decks, considering how the card itself works.
The major downside to this card is that it costs 4 mana to put into play, so the turn it is deployed in a Standard deck, the odds of it being used are rather slim. Furthermore, it requires you to cast a spell on a creature you control to get anything out of it.
What can you do with this in Magic: The Gathering? A good example is Tail Swipe, a 1-cost green Instant. It chooses a creature you control and one you don’t, and if done during your main phase, your creature gains +1/+1 for the turn and those two cards will then fight.
A player can use Tail Swipe to target a powerful creature of yours, make a copy of it, and use the original to beat up an enemy target. You can also do this to artifacts you control, provided you have the right spells.
In Commander, you could animate an artifact like Karn’s Sylex, and make a copy of it to use later. There are quite a few cards in Commander, in
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