Is power//toughness of Dracoplasm determined by last known power//toughness
Asked by Havefun2 8 months ago
I cast Claim the Firstborn on creature(1/1), then equip with Grafted Wargear (4/3), attack and finish with Fling for 4 dmg. But my friend said that Dracoplasm is not working that way, it check stats on that creature card. (no bonus stats for equipment, aura, counters,...) Dracoplasm is 0/0 on card, and if i sacrifice it for another Dracoplasm, then "New one " have same stats as first Dracoplasm or it become 0/0?
DatShepTho says... #2
The last known power/toughness was 4/3, so it will be 4/3. Nothing in the ability excludes the modifiers.
August 22, 2023 5:09 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
Havefun2: An answer to your question has been up for a while. Since there don't seem to be any more follow-ups or corrections that need to be made, I marked one of the responses as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future you can take care of this yourself using the "Mark as Answer" button on the response that you feel is the best answer to your question.
I try to avoid selecting my own responses when I do this, but in this case it seemed like the most complete option.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
You're right that Dracoplasm uses last known information, just like Fling and other similar effects. When the text makes reference to the "sacrificed creatures" (the current cleaned-up text just says "those creatures"), it means the creature objects that were sacrificed as they existed at the time, the same as any other effect that uses information about a sacrificed object to determine its results.
Neither the original printed text nor the current text is written in a way that would exclude any other P/T altering effects or only look at the printed characteristics of the card that were sacrificed. If Dracoplasm's ability was written in a way to exile the sacrificed creatures and reference the P/T of "the exiled cards" then the result would be what your friend is saying, but that's not how this ability works.
August 15, 2023 10:54 a.m.