Clever Impersonator

Creature — Shapeshifter

You may have this enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.

Combos

• Clever Impersonator + Rite of Replication

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

LilVacation on Princess Yue + Vesuva

3 weeks ago

Okay that makes perfect sense. Follow up question. If I have a Roil Elemental as a moon land, but that creature was originally a Clever Impersonator, would a Vesuva enter as the Roil or impersonator? I think based on my understanding it would be the Roil Elemental.

Rhadamanthus on Parralax Tide in combination with …

3 months ago

Polaris: The copy effect of Clever Impersonator is applied in layer 1 but the name, type, and ability-changing effects of the Princess Yue reanimation ability are applied in later layers. The Impersonators will all end up as Moon-ified versions of whatever they're copying.

And the reanimation effect doesn't make them legendary. That reminder text on Princess Yue is a reminder that the reanimation effect doesn't change her supertype.

Polaris on Parralax Tide in combination with …

3 months ago

Neotrup is correct about the triggers going one at a time, but you also have the issue that all of these clones are legendary lands named Moon (note the "she's still legendary) in the reminder text) and so four of them would have been sacrificed already as state-based actions. Avoiding this with effects like Mirror Gallery to dodge the legend rule breaks the combo anyway, so the best you can do is play your clones out one at a time and have them die and become Moons one at a time.

You also can't have them enter as Moon lands and as Ruin Crabs, it has to be one or the other. The triggered ability will bring them back as Moon lands, but since they still have the Clever Impersonator copy ability, you can choose to have them enter as Ruin Crabs instead, but they cannot be both.

Rawhotdog on What happens if you Copy …

3 months ago

Awesome all those interactions make sense, the only thing I can’t fully understand is when the Clever Impersonator comes back to copy the Sphinx and become a Moon is it still legendary and named Moon? This would mean I could only Moonify one Card at a time?

ContraMundi on Parralax Tide in combination with …

3 months ago

Hi,

let's say I have a Princess Yue on the field and 5 moon lands, which are all Clones like Clever Impersonator for example. There is also a Ruin Crab on the field.

I then play Parallax Tide remove all 5 counters to exile all 5 clone moon lands. Then Parallax Tide leaves the battlefield and all 5 clone moon lands return at the same time.

The way I understand it the clones return as the original clones and not as moon lands.

Then clones then all copy Princess Yue again and die to the legendary rune. This still happens at the same time as far as I understand it.

Now my question is: When the clones return from the princess Yue die trigger and return as moon lands to copy the Ruin Crab on the field, do they return at the same time seeing each other enter or one after another?

Because that would make a big difference in how many cards I mill my opponents for.

All at the same time: 6 Ruin Crabs on the Field & 5 lands entering = 90 cards milled

One after another: = 60 cards milled

Thank you for your answers. Building Princess Yue ain't easy :D

ContraMundi on What happens if you Copy …

3 months ago

Alright. Thank you already for the detailed answer.

The Consecrated SphinxGC for example would in this case be turned into a land by equiping it with Blade of Shared Souls turning it into Princess Yue, dying to the legendary rule and returning as a moon land. So I guess Copy Land would then turn into an enchantment creature Consecrated SphinxGC again if I understood you correctly.

Clever Impersonator would also copy Princess Yue, die to the legendary rule, return and copy the Consecrated SphinxGC still as a creature and turn into a "Consecrated Sphinx Moon Land". At this point it is unclear to me what would happen if I Copy Land that. But from your answer regarding copyable effects I guess it would also become an enchantment creature Consecrated SphinxGC again?

Would that mean that Vesuva and Thespian's Stage would also enter as or become a creature Consecrated SphinxGC?

Thank you again

Rhadamanthus on What happens if you Copy …

3 months ago

Lots of stuff going on here, but the key thing to keep in mind is that an object's copiable values are its base characteristics as modified by the results of any copy effects being applied to it.

In the first question, the copy will just be Princess Yue. She has a different name from the one who's turned into a Moon, so the Legend Rule doesn't get applied.

For the Consecrated SphinxGC question, it depends on how the Sphinx was turned into a land. If it was from a type-changing effect like Song of the Dryads then the copy will just be a Sphinx with the added enchantment type from Copy Land's effect. If it somehow became a land through a copy effect being applied to it (I don't have an example but there's certainly some way to do it), then the copy will be that land plus the enchantment type.

Because Clever Impersonator (making this a land is hard because of the restriction, but possible), Vesuva and Thespian's Stage all function by way of copy effects, any copy of them will also be a copy of whatever they copied. A copy of a Stage pretending to be something will still have the "{2}, {T}" ability because having that ability is part of the copy effect.

ContraMundi on What happens if you Copy …

3 months ago

Hi,

what happens if I use Copy Land to copy a moon land Princess Yue?

I read that it enters than as Princess Yue again since that values that make her a moon land are not copyable values? Do I then need to sacrifice either of them because of the legendary rule or not since they are named differently?

Also whap happens if I use Copy Land on a moon land that was a different creature before let's say Consecrated SphinxGC?

Or what happens if I use Copy Land on a moon land that was a clone like Clever Impersonator in detail?

And are those interactions the same for Vesuva & Thespian's Stage or are they different?

Sorry for the long questions but these are really complicated interactions :D

Thank you so much!