Can copies of cards transform?
Asked by gebell 6 years ago
Can a card or token that is a copy of another card transform?
One example: if I lay a Mechanized Production on Golden Guardian Flip will the token copies it creates be able to transform into the land?
Does it matter if it is a card that is a copy or if it is a token?
Thanks.
Another point on this is that when the card leaves the battlefield it will no longer be a copy. If Clone is a copy of Golden Guardian
Flip and it dies after using the fight ability, the triggered ability will trigger to return it, but because it cannot be transformed it will remain in the graveyard on resolution. If Delver of Secrets
Flip is a copy of Golden Guardian
Flip (perhaps from something like Mirrorweave) and it dies after using the fight ability, the triggered ability will trigger and return it to the battlefield as Insectile Aberration, it will never be the land.
Also, if a double-faced card is a copy of another double-faced card, even if it transforms it will still be considered whatever it was copying, not the other side. If Delver of Secrets
Flip is a copy of Thing in the Ice
Flip and cast an instant to transform it, it will transform into a Insectile Aberration that's a copy of Thing in the Ice
Flip, not Awoken Horror, so it will not trigger to return nonhorror creatures.
March 7, 2018 11:51 a.m.
So they're going to update this rule at the start of March of the Machine Tokens and Copies will count as double faced upon entry
However they will not count as double faced if they became copies AFTER entry
Caerwyn says... Accepted answer #1
Nope. Only double-faced cards can transform.
from https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/double-faced-card-rules-2011-08-29
The only objects that can transform are cards that physically have two faces. If a token or a card with a regular Magic back is instructed to transform, instead nothing will happen. Even if a token or non-double-faced card is a copy of one face of a double-faced card, it can't transform.
March 6, 2018 4:34 p.m.