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You can kill one of your own creatures to spawn two copies of the targeted creature, only their power and toughness are halved

That makes Recoil one of those cards that has a hard time being bad until the point when your opponent has extra lands they can hold in their hand in order to discard them, at which point most decks that run Recoil are either using that as an excuse to crank up the discard engine or more likely happy enough to have survived this long that they don't care

This card was inspired whole cloth from another card I designed that's come out in the last few years

All 10 MA cards from the initial print run had a surface finishing defect