copy cards with choices
Asked by Sagi007 13 years ago
if yu copy a th spell Thunderbolt with lets say Reverberate can you choice to deal 3 damage to play and 4 to a flyer or is the choice predeterment by the orignal cast choice?
rckclimber777 says... #2
706.10. To copy a spell or activated ability means to put a copy of it onto the stack; a copy of a spell isnt cast and a copy of an activated ability isnt activated. A copy of a spell or ability copies both the characteristics of the spell or ability and all decisions made for it, including modes, targets, the value of X, and additional or alternative costs. (See rule 601, "Casting Spells.") Choices that are normally made on resolution are not copied. If an effect of the copy refers to objects used to pay its costs, it uses the objects used to pay the costs of the original spell or ability. A copy of a spell is owned by the player under whose control it was put on the stack. A copy of a spell or ability is controlled by the player under whose control it was put on the stack. A copy of a spell is itself a spell, even though it has no spell card associated with it. A copy of an ability is itself an ability.
Example: A player casts Fork, targeting an Emerald Charm. Fork reads, "Copy target instant or sorcery spell, except that the copy is red. You may choose new targets for the copy." Emerald Charm is a green instant that reads, "Choose one Untap target permanent; or destroy target non-Aura enchantment; or target creature loses flying until end of turn." When the Fork resolves, it puts a copy of the Emerald Charm on the stack except the copy is red, not green. The copy has the same mode that was chosen for the original Emerald Charm. It does not necessarily have the same target, but only because Fork allows choosing of new targets.
So just as Epochalyptik said you must stick with the choice that you made.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
Thunderbolt is what's called a modal spell. When you copy a spell, the mode is one of the things that is copied. The Reverberate -produced Thunderbolt will therefore be of the same mode as the original (I.e. if the original choice was to deal 3 damage to target player, the copy cannot deal 4 damage to target creature with flying - it must also deal 3 damage to a target player).
May 25, 2012 1:10 p.m.