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The thing with Legacy is that the names have to sound both like an action (the sorcery/instant) and a creature (the 1/1)
fair enough
Thing is, it looks like it's trying to do one thing "Stuff that shares my name is vigilant, and I make stuff that shares my name - so it's vigilant! Yeah!"
and then kicks you in the teeth with "But, they don't need it, and don't have it when they do need it" So why give it?
What it really does is enable OTHER stuff that cares about names - creating tokens that share names with stuff, to activate your other mechanics. Which is plenty interesting and valuable. So I'd focus on that, and put the first clause onto another card that doesn't have the token making.
What doesn't work? This has vigilance too, so you attack and make a token each turn. That seems good enough, even just making vanilla tokens and not being a vigilance lord.
I love where you're going with all these enchantments with cheap activated Imitate. They'll do a bit amount of the gluing necessary for all the rest of the names-matter stuff in the set to work.
Nitpick: This needs to be spelled "prophecy" ("prophesy" is a verb), and Heirophant of the Pit needs spellchecking too.
That doesn't seem to quite work. It gains vigilance until end of turn, but it doesn't have haste so it can't attack the turn it has vigilance.
Even if this did work, I think it'd be phrased more simply as ": Put a 2/2 colourless Golem artifact creature token OTB. That token imitates another target permanent. (Imitate reminder text.)"
Haha, fun!
Nice. Looks good. Might as well have a point of power so it's not completely useless the turn after you use it as Awe Strike.
This will get very potent once you've got some activated imitate stuff on the table. Throw Sandskins around as much as you like. But you want some rewards for getting your names to matter, so go for it.
Seems fairly expensive for single-target hexproof, and it's rare to need multi-target hexproof. Cf Mizzium Skin which was 1 mana for single-target and 2 mana for ubiquitous.
...Wait. This isn't single-target hexproof. This will never grant hexproof on its own. It's just a source of lots of imitation, but hiding in the hand where it can't be interacted with.
I think this is a bad design, then, because a) people will think it says "Target permanent imitates this card" (not "imitates another permanent"), and b) it'll virtually never actually grant hexproof on its own. That means the card doesn't do what it looks like it does, which is okay for an occasional rare, but a very bad idea for a common.