Copying a Double-sided Card
Asked by DarasuumKote28 13 years ago
So in building an EDH deck around I want to through in. Now, can I use Riku's creature copying ability to produce a token that will flip? I've heard contradictory information on how this works- I know that copies are identical to the original (For example, if I will be attached to any resulting Insectile Aberration. My question in summary is simply, can I have multiple fully-functional huntmster-of-the-fells, one being an original and others copies?
Epochalyptik says... #2
No. Only a permanent represented by a double-faced card can transform. Tokens do not have a second face; they are copies of only the face that was up when the permanent was copied. Therefore, they can't transform.
April 8, 2012 5:57 p.m.
They are correct. Non-double-faced cards can't transform.
701.25a Only permanents represented by double-faced cards can transform. (See rule 711, "Double-Faced Cards.") If a spell or ability instructs a player to transform any permanent that isn't represented by a double-faced card, nothing happens.
April 8, 2012 5:58 p.m.
DarasuumKote28 says... #4
Damn. That would have been too sweet. Ah, it'd still be good to copy Ravager of the Fells. Thanks, guys.
April 8, 2012 6 p.m.
Remember, if you copy a Ravager of the Fells, you do not get to deal 2 damage to target opponent or 2 damage to up to one target creature that player controls. It is not an enter the battlefield ability, only a when this creature transforms ability, which your clone creature is not doing.
DarasuumKote28 says... #1
*throw in, and when I say I've heard contradictory info, I mean someone told me once that it's impossible for non-double-sided cards to flip.
April 8, 2012 5:48 p.m.