Pack Rat<\/a>\u2019s ability (don’t ask me how I cast 8 spells and still had another card to discard along with the mana for all this… I swear I wasn’t cheating), and my 30\/30 performs an act of magnificent mitosis! Mwahahaha\u2026<\/p>\n…why is my token a 2\/2?<\/p>\n
First off, when a token enters the battlefield via a spell or ability, that spell or ability defines the values for all the characteristics of the token. Pack Rat\u2019s ability sets the values for the token as: \u201cA copy of Pack Rat.\u201d This leads us to what a \u201ccopy\u201d of Pack Rat is.<\/p>\n
When an object is copied, it acquires the \u201ccopiable characteristics\u201d of the original object. Copiable values include: \u201cName, mana cost, color indicator, card type, subtype, supertype, expansion symbol, rules text, power, toughness, and\/or loyalty.\u201d Other continuous effects are not copied. Those effects include things that change type, change text, change status, or bonuses from counters. In Pack Rat\u2019s case, the token is a black Pack Rat creature token. Treat it like a photocopy of the card named “Pack Rat,” except that it’s not a card (since it’s a token). It is a black rat with the mana cost 1B, and it sports the original Pack Rat\u2019s two abilities. Nothing more, nothing less.<\/p>\n
Today’s Rules Tip written by Billy San Juan, L1 from San Diego, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I control a . Then I target it with 4 s and 4 s. Then I put a +1\/+1 counter on it and turn it blue somehow. You know, for good measure. Now I use \u2019s ability (don’t ask me how I cast 8 spells and still had another card to discard along with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38,67,15],"tags":[852],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characteristics","category-copies","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","tag-pack-rat","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}