Since The Cloning of Shredder exiles a card from the graveyard, you never have to worry about paying the mana cost of the creature that you're cloning
BPhillipYork: For 7 mana this doesn't seem like it does enough, the odds you have 4 creatures you really want copies of at that moment, and if the creatures are really dangerous they can choose to eat the loss rather than give it to you
While 0/1 tokens may not seem like much at first, thanks to its Landfall ability, whenever a land enters the battlefield under its owner's control, that player puts a +1/+1 counter on each plant they control, meaning these tokens can become threatening very quickly
This omnipresence doesnt just include control decks and Turn 1 kill decks
Ill be adding this to my Glacian, Powerstone Engineer + Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith deck as a way to punch through damage, and I can see other decks like Emry, Lurker of the Loch following suit over time
Gennari has a solution in mind for both of these potential issues