It\u2019s only fitting that the new guild keyword that caused the most confusion upon being released was Cipher, the signature mechanic of House Dimir. And because I most definitely am not a Dimir informant secretly reporting to my shadowy superior in a hidden base in Arizona that most definitely doesn’t exist, I believe I’m at liberty to share with you the following vital information.<\/p>\n
Take a card like Stolen Identity<\/a>, which makes a token copy of a creature. By and large, you can follow the rule that the copy\u2019s characteristics are \u201cwhat\u2019s printed on the card\u201d: name, mana cost, types, rules text, power, and toughness. All other effects on the copied creature, such as counters and abilities it gained from other sources, won\u2019t be copied. That applies to the ability it gains from cipher as well. So let\u2019s say I control an Invisible Stalker<\/a> with Stolen Identity encoded onto it. My Stalker deals combat damage to my opponent (as unblockable creatures so often do) and I use the cipher ability to make another Stalker token. That new Stalker won\u2019t be encoded with anything. It\u2019ll be just a normal, typical, not-secretly-a-Dimir-agent-at-all Invisible Stalker…at least until I encode a different card with cipher onto it. Muahahaha…<\/p>\n Today’s Rules Tip written by Jen Wong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s only fitting that the new guild keyword that caused the most confusion upon being released was Cipher, the signature mechanic of House Dimir. And because I most definitely am not a Dimir informant secretly reporting to my shadowy superior in a hidden base in Arizona that most definitely doesn’t exist, I believe I’m at […]<\/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],"tags":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characteristics","category-copies","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","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=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}