[m12] Phantasmal Image

[Blue Lotus]

 

Creature - Illusion   
You may have Phantasmal Image enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it gains "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

This seems like a great addition to fish. Blue and doubling up on confidant or goyf sounds like a deal to me. The drawback seems minimal, the only major one i can think of is having a goyf die to a single trike shot; dying to chain of vapor is still one for one.

Seems very playable.

The 2/2 with "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it" doesn't seem half bad either.

[Beralt]

Copies Blightsteel (and blocks) nicely and can even duplicate Inkwell, although it probably won't block another Inkwell.

[Lemnear]

Playing Bob-Tendrils with basically 8 copies sounds promissing

[Blue Lotus]

I didn't even realize this is a great answer to shroud oath/tinker creatures (or any fatty for that matter).

[Guli]

This card is amazing, I am surprised it doesn't get discussed more.

[Killane]

Sorry for the Necro, but the thread isn't that old and i think this card warrants some discussion.

Given how many of the winning lists at Champs featured creatures, this card seems very very strong. The primary consideration I think is twofold:

1 - Is it really worth running when Metamorph only costs  and 2 life more and can copy artifacts, and doesn't have the illusion drawback?

2 - What sees play in vintage that kills this that makes the illusion drawback active?

For me, i think the answer to #1 is no in workshop deck and yes in decks like Fish and Control that are a bit tighter on mana. The answer to number two?? Lightning bolt and darkblast kill it when it copies a non-shroud fatty. nothing else i can think off sees play that wouldn't kill it anyway.
Thoughts?

[Delha]

The answer to number two?? Lightning bolt and darkblast kill it when it copies a non-shroud fatty. nothing else i can think off sees play that wouldn't kill it anyway.

Amusingly, Duplicant whiffs on him. Since he dies with the exile trigger still on the stack, they get a 2/4 instead of a 5/3 or 4/2 or whatever. If you copied your own tinker bot, I'm going to assume they'll just hit the original instead of this guy.

Also, I suppose stuff like Pridemage/Claim/Grudge works against him some of the time.

[President Skroob]

You can live the dream and kill him with a Voltaic Key when he's an artifact.

Boom.

[Killane]

Oh yeah, that's pretty relevant since the most common targets will be Tinker bots and shop monsters (though show many shop decks play key these days? Not that many).

[Guli]

Phantasmal Image is always good. Why?

- You will run it in a deck with dudes you can copy (Meddling Mage, Revokers, Qasali, ...)
- It can match any Tinker target (this is important against a very early Tinker)
- It is strong against high cc bombs Workshop is throwing at you (Precursor, Wurmcoil, Lodestone, Triskelon, Hellkite are all nice copy targets)
- It kills bridges in the dredge match up
- It copies Sun Titan and if you have several Images in grave they all become Sun Titans.
- It copies Tarmogoyf in the mirror
- It copies Dark Confidant

Image is a highly flexible card and the best 2 drop for   at this moment.