{"id":3805,"date":"2013-10-23T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:52:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:52:29","slug":"cloningmimicing-your-heroic-creatures-wont-trigger-their-heroic-abilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/10\/cloningmimicing-your-heroic-creatures-wont-trigger-their-heroic-abilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloning\/Mimicing your heroic creatures won&#8217;t trigger their heroic abilities."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img  style='float:left'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Progenitor Mimic'><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Clone&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Clone<\/a>s (cards that copy something as they enter the battlefield), such as <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Progenitor+Mimic&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Progenitor Mimic<\/a>, don\u2019t target. No matter how hard you try, when you choose a heroic creature with clones such as these, the heroic trigger\u2019s requirements (1. That it&#8217;s a spell you cast, 2. That it targets this creature), won&#8217;t be satisfied because why? It&#8217;s a non-targeting spell! In fact, nothing about copying with Clone or Progenitor Mimic targets anything. It&#8217;s just a choice that&#8217;s made as the card is entering. A creature spell never targets anything!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by Eddie Cheung<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>s (cards that copy something as they enter the battlefield), such as , don\u2019t target. No matter how hard you try, when you choose a heroic creature with clones such as these, the heroic trigger\u2019s requirements (1. That it&#8217;s a spell you cast, 2. That it targets this creature), won&#8217;t be satisfied because why? It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/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":[29,67,15,8],"tags":[1035,963],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-copies","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-triggeredabilities","tag-heroic","tag-progenitor-mimic","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","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=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}