Cipher
Asked by Phat_Shadow 12 years ago
This may be answered somewhere or hidden somewhere in the wording of the card but I haven't seen it yet.
Let's say I cast a spell with the cipher ability (maybe Hands of Binding ) then encode it to a creature. If I attack with that creature and the damage goes through to the player, can the "copied" cipher spell be encoded to another creature so that I have more than one of those spells for next attack phase?
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #2
The ability to encode is not lost because you're casting a copy of the spell. Since the cipher ability doesn't specify that you copy the encoded spell minus its cipher ability, the copy still has cipher.
HOWEVER, the text of cipher tells you that you can't encode copies. It specifies: "then you may exile this spell card . . ." Since the copied spell is not a card, you can't encode it on anything.
Drakrhal says... #1
I don't believe so. I think that the cipher ability is only played through the physical card, and once it is encoded, the ability to encode is lost.
January 22, 2013 6:05 p.m.