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Category Archives: Copies
When Infinite Reflection leaves play, your creatures don’t stop being copies of what was enchanted.
When Infinite Reflection enters the battlefield, all your creatures become a copy of whatever it’s enchanting, and while it’s on the battlefield attached to a creature, each other creature that enters the battlefield under your control becomes a copy of … Continue reading
You choose something new to copy when your Phantasmal Image comes back from undying.
When a copy of a creature with the undying ability dies, the undying ability will trigger and return it to play. This is due to the last known information when the card was in play, which is what leaves-the-battlefield abilities … Continue reading
Ratchet Bomb destroys most tokens, but not all of them.
Tokens created by a spell or triggered ability such as Blade Splicer’s golem token or Lingering Souls’ spirit tokens have no defined mana cost, and therefore have a converted mana cost (“CMC”) of zero. A Ratchet Bomb activated with zero … Continue reading
Posted in Characteristics, Copies, Uncategorized
Tagged Birthing Pod, Blade Splicer, Cackling Counterpart, Grave Titan, Lingering Souls, Ratchet Bomb
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Mirror-mad Phantasm refers to itself and cards with its name.
When a card refers to itself by name, it really means ‘this object.’ For example, Darkthicket Wolf‘s ability gives +2/+2 to itself. There are some situations where this distinction matters. For example, if Sakashima the Impostor were to copy this … Continue reading
Posted in Copies, Resolving spells and abilities
Tagged Clone, Darkthicket Wolf, Mirror-mad Phantasm, Sakashima the Impostor
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Intangible Virtue wil affect token copies.
Intangible Virtue gives +1/+1 and vigilance to token creatures you control. This applies to all tokens regardless of what effect created them. Most token creatures are basic, in that they are vanilla creatures with a name, color, type, power and … Continue reading
Posted in Copies
Tagged Back from the Brink, Doomed Traveler, Intangible Virtue, Moan of the Unhallowed, Stitcher's Apprentice
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Putting a copy on the stack vs playing a copy of a card.
Going all the way back to Fork, there have been many many ways to put a copy of another spell on the stack. Most often this is pretty simple, you just put another copy of the original target on the … Continue reading