Quote from: AdamS on March 22, 2014, 05:37:17 PMQuote from: rarehuntertay on March 22, 2014, 05:25:44 PMthe cards rulings state that you may choose not to have mimic copy anything and it would place 0/0 shapeshifter tokens on the battle field.
No. If it doesn't copy a creature, it doesn't get the "create token" ability
Whether you chose to copy something or not it should still gain the ability to make copies of progenitor mimic.