Machine God's Effigy

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Legality

Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Machine God's Effigy

Artifact

You may have Machine God's Effigy enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact and it has ": Add ." (It's not a creature.)

: Add .

Gidgetimer on Will animating card:Machine God's Effigy …

2 months ago

I'll try one more way to explain it.

When Machine God's Effigy copies something it starts with the copiable characteristics of the card. These are what is printed on the card (there are things that modify copiable characteristics, but for ease we will assume that none apply at this stage). Then the copy effect modifies those characteristics to determine what Machine God's Effigy enters as. The modification that the copy effect makes is that the copy is an artifact. As per CR 205.3d quoted above, the copy can not gain subtypes that don't correspond with a type that it does not have. So the copy will not get any creature, battle, planeswalker, or enchantment type. When you later animate it the Machine God's Effigy will not have any creature types and will be a typeless creature unless another effect gives it a type.

Mave on Will animating card:Machine God's Effigy …

2 months ago

I still don't understand but I will now just play with Machine God's Effigy that it simply has no other card types besides the Artifact types on the card it copies.

Gidgetimer on Will animating card:Machine God's Effigy …

2 months ago

Your original premise is wrong. The reason Machine God's Effigy doesn't have any subtypes at all is that it wasn't printed with any subtypes.

Unless something makes it a treasure, it isn't a treasure; unless something makes it a food, it isn't a food; unless something makes it an elf, it isn't an elf. Sydri, Galvanic Genius and March of the Machines don't grant any creature subtypes, so it would just be an artifact creature with no subtypes. Mishra, Eminent One gives the subtype "construct", so the Machine God's Effigy copy is a construct.

Mave on Will animating card:Machine God's Effigy …

2 months ago

If I understood the rules of Machine God's Effigy correctly the reason why it doesn't has the subtypes like Saga, Myr, Construct or Forest is because those types are only available if the card is an Enchantment, Creature, Kindred or Land. But since it is an artifact it keeps types such as Treasure, Vehicle, Clue, Food etc. So would Sydri, Galvanic Genius return the type since it turns Machine God's Effigy into a creature and therefore it becomes able to hold the card type? And since March of the Machines directly causes Machine God's Effigy to enter as a Creature would it be able to retain the creature types or is there sth in the rules that simply erases all nonartifact creature types from it? So far I haven't seen this exact question. There were questions that refered to making a Mishra's Warform Token from Machine God's Effigy. They didn't go into detail regarding the creature type and only write "the copy will be an Artifact Creature - Construct". Mishra, Eminent One would be a similar case like Sydri. But why wouldn't the creature type be "dormant" in the copy? I read that e.g. copying a Vehicle with Machine God's Effigy or any other creature will keep the p/t dormant so if Machine God's Effigy gets crew it becomes able to turn into a creature with the regular P/T stats.

Yesterday on “It's still a [land].”

6 months ago

I have a Machine God's Effigy enter the battlefield as a copy of an animated Spawning Pool, then I activate the Effigy's ability to become a creature.

Does “It's still a land” just mean “It's still the permanent types that it was at the activation of this ability”? I.E. does this translate to the Effigy becoming an artifact creature until end of turn?

SufferFromEDHD on Do mana rocks about it

6 months ago

Machine God's Effigy and Misleading Signpost

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

Echo of Eons

If Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur makes into the main deck you have a playset of big spells to cheat with Show and Tell

BringerOTBD on Breya, Etherium Shaper

1 year ago

Update: -Marionette Master / +Cyberdrive Awakener -Machine God's Effigy / +Imotekh the Stormlord -Blasphemous Act / +Their Name is Death -Disciple of the Vault / +Steel Overseer -Reverse Engineer / +Losheel, Clockwork Scholar -Bedevil / +Void Rend -Temple of Malice / +Cryptothrall -Temple of Enlightenment / +Optimus Prime, Hero  Flip -Temple of Deceit / +Thirst for Knowledge -Temple of Epiphany / +Shivan Reef

Notes: I chose Cryptothrall over Spellskite because they serve the same function, to protect your stuff, but Cryptothrall requires less effort. I put in Optimus because I wanted to experiment with him. Lastly, I'm keeping Austere Command in the deck since I like to have a board wipe that hits enchantments and artifacts.