We’re also going to try to circumvent the legend rule by bringing in Sakashima of a Thousand Faces and Mirror Box, so we can make a field full of legends. And since we’ll now have our own creatures that we can also copy, we’re tossing in: Cackling Counterpart, Extravagant Replication, Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore, Irenicus’s Vile Duplication, Repudiate // Replicate, and Spark Double. We’re also making token copies with: Clone Legion, Elminster’s Simulacrum, Progenitor Mimic, Rite of Replication, and Theoretical Duplication. That’s just one creature! We’ll need other clones that can copy our opponents’ creatures, and for that we have: Clever Impersonator, Phyrexian Metamorph, Stunt Double, Undercover Operative, and Vizier of Many Faces. We can’t just rely on turning Wilson into something good. So I’ll be guaranteed to get him on the board every time I cast him, with Ward 2 protecting him until I can change him with the background. At just 2 mana, Wilson is easy to cast multiple times in a game, and he has that crucial extra protection from his ability of being uncounterable. Immediately, Wilson, Refined Grizzly jumped out as the best option. What I wanted from that creature was to have it be low mana value so I could re-cast it easily if it dies, and either green or black, since green/blue or black/blue are the best color pairings for a clone and copy deck. Obviously, if I wanted Shameless Charlatan in the command zone, then I had to use a Choose a Background creature. And if we’re going to turn our commander into someone else’s creature, why not make a whole deck around that concept? So we’re going to be busting out all kinds of Clones and copy spells to fill our board with the best stuff on the field. But what if instead of building around our commander, we just rely on others to do the work for us? Similar to Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, we’re upgrading our commander to a bigger threat, but without having to wait for that creature to hit the graveyard. Especially when most commander decks are built specifically around the commander’s abilities. A confusing card at first, it made me wonder why I would want to turn my commander into something else.
My interest was piqued when Shameless Charlatan was revealed during the Baldur’s Gate previews. And we’re doing it all with Wilson, Refined Grizzly and Shameless Charlatan. Today we’re shamelessly using our opponents’ creatures for our own benefit, with an “Anything you can do, I can do better” approach. For our last tech we made embarrassing amounts of artifact tokens with Jan Jansen. We’re here bringing you a “beary” good Commander deck tech from Commander Legends 2.