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Okay, so today's topic is one of my favorite topics. One of my effects that I enjoy most in all of magic.

Copying. So I'm going to talk a little bit about the history of copying and then talk about sort of the

how we divide it up in the color pie.

It is a fun effect that is very popular.

Okay, so at the very beginning, we go back to the very beginning, to Alpha.

So in Alpha, Richard Garfield, made four cards that copied something.

So let's start with Clone. So clone, I think it was an uncommon

creature. It cost three and a blue. And when it entered the battlefield, you chose a creature.

Any creature on the battlefield, yours or somebody else doesn't matter. And then the clone became a

copy of it. So the idea of a shapeshifter or something that copies the form of other things

is pretty established in fantasy,

so much so that Richard put it in the very first set.

But clone wasn't the only creature that copy things.

At Rare, he also had Vesuvind Dopplganger,

which costs three blue-blue, and it was like a clone, meaning that...

Actually, so I think the way the Vesuv and Dopplganger works is at the start of each turn, you get to choose a creature, and then it stays blue, and retains this the text that lets it change but each turn

you get to turn into something different. So clone is like I pick it. That's what it is. For the

rest of time the clone is that thing. The Suvind Dopplganger can change each turn. I'm not sure why

it stays blue. Maybe Richard thought that was a fun,

like, you know, you can tell that it's not quite the thing it's supposed to be. Where a clone

would copy everything about it. Like, once you put a clone on the battlefield, as far as the game's

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