Hero card

Esoteric Duplicator

Artifact – Clue

PayoffThe more of what it needs is on the battlefield, the stronger it gets: the deck has to feed it a lot

Needs: Sacrifice

Gives: Artifacts, Card Draw

Not in winning lists yet: read from the card text and the graph

Build a deck with Esoteric Duplicator as the hero

Makes it work

Cauldron of Essence · Radiant Lotus · Rakdos, the Muscle · Popular Egotist · Tarrian's Journal · Metalhead · Krenko, Baron of Tin Street · Slagdrill Scrapper

Benefits from it

Homunculus Horde

Use instead if you don't have it

Thief's Knife · Worldwalker Helm · Simulacrum Synthesizer · Essence Anchor · Buster Sword · Hylda's Crown of Winter

Cards in the meta that answer it

Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Inevitable Defeat (4-Color Control) · No More Lies (Azorius Control) · We Say Thee Nay! (Dimir Aggro)