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Category: Copies

Casting / playing a spell or ability, Copies

Putting a copy on the stack vs playing a copy of a card.

May 4, 2011February 5, 2015 | krizriktr

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 […]

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Tagged Isochron Scepter
Copies

Copy effect copy other copy effects

February 23, 2011February 5, 2015 | krizriktr

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 […]

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Tagged Clone, Giant Growth, Llanowar Elves
Copies

Copyable values of spells

January 10, 2011February 5, 2015 | krizriktr

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 […]

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Tagged Pyromancer Ascension, Reverberate

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