I'm a little surprised at the idea that Spitting Image isn't even much of a bend. When it was printed the only green cards that made token copies were Spawnwrithe and Sprouting Phytohydra (which only copied themselves, Parallel Evolution (which only copies tokens) and Dual Nature (which is the only thing vaguely like Spitting Image). Since then the only comparable card is Bramble Sovereign. Seems like a heck of a bend.

No, it’s an in-color ability used infrequently. There are many of those.

I feel that most people are taking the NWO thing out of proportion for fear they won't see their favorite cards anymore. Context might be useful. With RTR around the corner, could you maybe name a couple cards from Ravnica we'd be unlikely to see? For example some of my favorite designs from the set included Gelectrode, Dovescape, Phytohydra, Mindleech Mass, Vulturous Zombie, and Searing Meditation. Could I expect to ever see designs like those again?

Something important to remember. New World Order is about limiting certain kinds of complexity at common. We still put plenty of strategic complexity at common (the complexity is in how best to use it not understanding or tracking what it does) and all kinds of complexity at higher rarities.