Parallel Lives - 01/23/2012

I'm actually quite excited about abusing this card.

Card Name: 

Parallel Lives

Mana Cost:

Converted Mana Cost:4

Types:

Enchantment

Card Text:

 If an effect would put one or more tokens onto the battlefield under your control, it puts twice that many of those tokens onto the battlefield instead.

Expansion:

 Innistrad

Rarity:

Rare

Card #:

199

Artist:

Steve Prescott

 

Now then... Let me cut to the chase. Parallel Lives sucks in a deck that doesn't deal in tokens. In a deck that does, it's ok. 

So why would you want to spend 4 mana for a card that's just ok? You don't. You want to spend 8, 12, or 16 mana. You want a bunch of them.

Parallel Lives stacks. 1 gives you 2 tokens. 2 gives you 4 tokens. 3 gives you 8 tokens. and 4 would give you SIXTEEN TOKENS for the price of 1. 

Add that to the fact that you can Genesis Wave them on to the field and you can do some serious token drops.

But wait! It gets better. Especially if you're playing legacy.

Not only does it play nice with itself, but it also couples with Doubling Season. 32, 64, 128, 256. For the price of 1.

Now we're simply spouting MTG theory here, but, follow me on this, alright?

Let's see what would happen if we dropped a single Deranged Hermit, and for shits and giggles, let's have 4 Dual Nature's in play too.

With 4 Dual Natures in play, if you play the Deranged Hermit each of the Dual Natures  will put in a Deranged Hermit token on to the field. The other enchantments will double and double and so forth so you will have 1024 EXTRA deranged hermits on top of the original.

That's 4096 squirrels.

1,049,600 squirrel tokens.

1026/1026 squirrel tokens

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