Cast wish and do clone to skip the material components cost (doing it for free)(doesnt cause stress since 8 level spell) you can make one each day if you dont use your 9 level everywhere else

what appen if you have two clone and youn die?

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I might be missing something, but there doesn't appear to be a limit on the number of clones that can be created. A wealthy necromancer could in theory create hundreds of these things and always transfer into the next one down the line when they die. It seems to me like a pretty cheap path to immortality that doesn't require any of the sacrifices that a lich must make. This series of hidden clones also seems more secure than a phylactery, and one doesn't even need to be on the same plane as their clone for their soul to successfully transfer. This really begs the question, why become a lich when there is a much better option available?

 

You are missing a key point.

"if the original creature dies"

So only one clone would ever activate. The clone isn't the original creature so they would need to make a new clone each time they die, hiding from danger for 120 days before it is ready. 

Its not bad, but not as safe as a lich.

 That is interesting. Positing that becoming the clone would invalidate other uses of clones. Your soul is what makes you, you right? Changing bodies wouldn't make you not the original creature? 

Wait if 1 Day in the Material Plane=10 Days in the Deep Ethereal wouldn't that mean if you shove a Clone vat into the Deep Ethereal and cast this spell wouldn't you have a full grown clown in 12 days if you hop back to the Material Plane and then come back 12 days later

So maybe this is an easier way to get immortality, but the power of a lich is still really good in my opinion. I mean, look at the lair actions. It can regain a spell slot from 8th level or lower, can force a target creature to make a CON save whenever the lich is damaged and on a fail the lich halves that damage and the target takes the remaining damage. The last one forces the target to make a CON save or take 15d6 necrotic damage on a fail, and half as much on a success. Not to mention that one of its attacks paralyzes people who fail their CON save. Now don't get me wrong, you can make a cool powerful villian using the clone spell, but don't so quickly discount the power of a lich. Especially when considering that all someone has to do to stop a clone spell is tamper with the vessel itself. You can't so easily do that with a phylactery.

The only drawback to being a lich is the dependency on souls, major depression, and barbarians.

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“This spell grows an inert duplicate of a living, Medium creature”

So a gnome or halfling cannot be cloned? This needs some revision. 

 gnomes or halfling can be cloned, because they are also considered the same size as medium creatures. 

anyone remember that one minecraft mod where you could literally just do this but instead of all those material components you just needed a booth a treadmill and a pig?