Lazav the Multifarious<\/a>, and how he interacts with cards that refer to themselves by name. Let\u2019s take me, Etrata the Silencer, as an example. My first ability says \u201cEtrata the Silencer can\u2019t be blocked\u201d- so you might think that if Lazav became a copy of me, because his name remains \u201cLazav the Multifarious\u201d, it wouldn\u2019t apply- but no! Whenever an ability refers to the object it\u2019s printed on by name, it in fact means \u201cThis object\u201d, no matter what its name actually is at that point. Our glorious leader copies my ability perfectly, and can\u2019t be blocked!<\/p>\nThis applies to abilities on the stack that refer to their source by name as well. For example, my second ability says \u201cEtrata\u2019s owner shuffles Etrata into their library.\u201d. Once again, when it says Etrata, it means \u201cthis object\u201d, so what this actually means is \u201cThis object’s owner shuffles it into their library\u201d. It may look different, but the general idea remains the same- anything that would have referred to Etrata now refers to Lazav. When the trigger resolves, Lazav\u2019s owner shuffles him away just as they would shuffle away Etrata.<\/p>\n
Truly, our guildmaster is as powerful as he is cunning- you\u2019d never know the difference between whoever he\u2019s copying and the real deal! In any case, that\u2019s all for today, but make sure to return soon- we\u2019ve got excellent intelligence all this week for House Dimir eyes only. Best of luck, and stay unseen!<\/p>\n
Today’s Rules Tip was written by Alistair Crook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Learn all about how Lazav interacts with cards that refer to themselves by name, with guest contributor Etrata the Silencer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[148,108,38,67,15,17,8],"tags":[1399],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-6585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-activatedabilities","category-characteristics","category-copies","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-staticabilities","category-triggeredabilities","tag-lazav-the-multifarious","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6590,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions\/6590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6585"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=6585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}