Tokens created by a spell or triggered ability such as ’s golem token or ’ spirit tokens have no defined mana cost, and therefore have a converted mana cost (“CMC”) of zero. A activated with zero charge counters is more than adequate to wipe out a field of tokens generated in this manner. When a […]
Category: Copies
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, ‘s ability gives +2/+2 to itself. There are some situations where this distinction matters. For example, if were to copy this Darkthicket Wolf, the ability on Sakashima would effectively read ‘2G: ~This~ gets +2/+2 until the the end of turn.’ […]
Intangible Virtue wil affect token copies.
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 toughness, or they have a singular keyword ability like flying or deathtouch. See the tokens created by […]
Additional costs are not paid when putting copies of spells on the stack.
When a copy of a spell is put on the stack, by something like the copy will be an exact one. If the original spell had any additional costs paid they will also be considered paid for the copy. Also, if the original spell had a variable cost, like a , the copy will also […]
Phyrexian Metamorph is not a creature if it copies a noncreature artifact.
When an object enters play copying another object, it copies all ‘base’ characteristics. Other than copy effects, effects that are applied to the original are not copied. Also, unless the effect that copies the original says so, the copy will not have any additional types or colors. Which brings up to . As a Phyrexian […]
Putting a copy on the stack vs playing a copy of a card.
Going all the way back to , 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 stack. You are generally allowed to change the targets for this copy but the copy […]
Copy effect copy other copy effects
Effects that copy one object will normally copy the ‘base’ characteristics of the object and do not copy most other effects applied to the original object. For example, a will copy the printed characteristics of the card that that is chosen as Clone enters play. It does not matter if the creature targeted by Clone […]
Copyable values of spells
When a spell is copied by something like or it makes an exact copy, unless the effect that makes the copy allows you to make changes. Most often these effects will allow you to choose new targets, but other values will stay the same. For example, the value of X in the mana cost of […]