If a monster is hit, its clone appears on a free adjacent square. This clone has no items (the inventory of the monster hit is not cloned), but otherwise is a complete equivalent of the original, only including its allegiance will be changed . You can use this effect either to belong to its creator - the create a second powerful pet if you already have one who zapped the wand. This is actually actively abused by [[Ischaldirh]], who always generates with a wand of cloning and likes or even to zap you and then watch clone yourself at the death match between peak of your avatar and power, basically doubling your evil twinkilling potential. Note that unique named monsters are immune to cloning.

If there are only items on the square, the first five lowest items will be affected (the items first dropped, with the exception of the wall-mounted [[lantern]]s, which are alwys the highest and can be cloned only if there are four or less items underneath them). These items will be duplicated into identical permanent copies that have the same effects and uses and even stack together. This is the most desirable effect of the wands of cloning. Be aware that not all items are cloneable (especially [[:Category:Artifacts|Artifactartifact]]s) and the game will not skip them while pickeing the items to be cloned - if you target a square with an uncloneable item and five cloneable on top of it, only four items will be cloned, the fifth cloneable items being unaffected because the first "charge" of cloning was wasted on the uncloneable item.

''Coming soon!'' === Trivia === * A spell similar to the effect of this wand is sometimes employed by the dreaded [[Ischaldirh]], who likes to conjure clones of the player. Be aware that these clones are hostile to you and Ischaldirh will happily watch the resulting death match between your avatar and your evil twin. * Both Ischaldirh and [[Experiment ZQ-29]] always generate with a single wand of cloning in their inventory. [[Category:Items]]