Cloning Planeswalkers
Asked by DarkMagician 9 years ago
If I clone a Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker while he is a creature will the clone remain an indestructible dragon with Planeswalker abilities?
DarkMagician says... #2
If i clone a clone that's cloning say a Storm Crow the new clone is a Crow not a clone so that doesn't sound right (at least the explanation doesn't).
October 4, 2014 1:59 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #3
Generally speaking, copy effects copy the written text of the card and, in addition, any copy effects that have been applied to the copied object.
Animating Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker doesn't change anything about the way Clone interacts with it. Clone will give you an inanimate copy because animated status is not a copiable characteristic. The Clone will enter the battlefield as though it were a new Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker (because that is in fact what it is now).
In your counterexample, DarkMagician, the second Clone enters as a Storm Crow because the first Clone is also a Storm Crow due to a copy effect. Copy effects copy other copy effects. By way of further example, copying Elite Vanguard with Phyrexian Metamorph , then copying that Phyrexian Metamorph /Elite Vanguard with Phantasmal Image will give you an Elite Vanguard that is an Artifact Creature - Human Soldier Illusion with the ability "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it." (You'll also have the original Elite Vanguard and the Phyrexian Metamorph ed copy.)
pskinn01 says... #1
no, a copy only copies what is on the original card including any come into play effect. So in this case you would get a Sarkhan with 4 counters on it
October 4, 2014 1:54 a.m.