#what to cut?

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dry rivet
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Shadow Kin is a cool card but doesn't exactly help with your strat to copy Vialsmasher. You're also not terribly interested in yards otherwise so milling opponents isn't crazy usewful

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Beguiller of wills seems really slow and also somewhat unreliable

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I think it might make sense to swap a few counterspells for onboard spot-removal. Some things will inevitably get through, and so having a few ways to handle stuff that's on the board could make sense.
a few cards that could make sense with the theme of the deck: [[snuff out]], [[Curtains' Call]] [[murderous cut]]

elfin swiftBOT
warm oxide
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eg, spells with decently high cmc that you can play for much cheaper

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I also think that unless you're trying to play cedh, some of your conterspells are a bit too situational.

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and if you are trying to play cedh, I think there's a lot more that needs to be changed lol

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mirrormade could be a cut? It's cute, but you yourself don't have that many worthwhile copy targets for it imo, so you're mostly relying on other people playing cool stuff for you. In some games, it might just be manarocks

dry rivet
warm oxide
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Sure, it's just that she's likely the least reliable clone

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She might turn into something good

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The thing with clone decks is that you shouldn't rely on your opponents on playing good clone targets

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If they have something worth cloning, that's great. But you should still be able to advance your boardstate even if people aren't running anything crazy to clone. Sometimes they don't run many creatures at all, or their creatures are mostly 1/1 tokens, or they're very niche synergy pieces. In this deck, Shadow Kin is mostly relying on hitting something good from opponents, because your deck contains a good chunk of 0/0 clones and no other notable graveyard synergies

dry rivet
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Yeah I agree about that one. Will cut. And maybe beguiler as well. I'm aiming for a solid 8 so I think the counters are fine. Might cut one for size though