A Clone Question
Asked by Atanar 9 years ago
Clone a legal target for Ally Encampment to spend mana on if I choose a changeling creature as being copied?
First of all, this is a question for the Rules Q&A section, located in your friendly neighborhood header bar.
Secondly, the answer to your question is no. Clone does not replace its shapeshifter creature type until it enters the battlefield, long after you have to pay the costs for the spell.
March 14, 2016 10:21 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
You don't choose that to copy with Clone until after the spell resolves and Clone starts entering the battlefield. The Clone spell is just a regular Clone, not yet copying anything, so mana from Ally Encampment's 2nd ability can't be spent on it.
March 14, 2016 11:55 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
Note also that Ally Encampment's mana ability doesn't target anything. You just spend the mana on a spell. Mana abilities by definition don't have targets.
March 14, 2016 12:08 p.m.
You have to have a Changeling effect to accomplish this. i.e. Mirror Entity, who is literally recognized as all creature types regardless of which zone he is in or where you are in the game, unless that effect is altered by another card.
March 14, 2016 4:56 p.m.
Clone doesn't have the Changeling effect on it, and you cannot select it to copy a creature with the Changeling effect until you have successfully put him on the stack to be cast, which only happens once the mana cost has already been paid.
mtgThaen says... #1
I do not believe so, because it doesn't become a changeling until it enters the battlefield.
March 14, 2016 9:57 a.m.