Does a Myr Welder retain abilities when copied?
Asked by junkpile 9 years ago
Myr Welder has an imprint ability that imprints an artifact exiled from a graveyard. It also has a static ability that says it gains the activated abilities of cards exiled with it.
Say a Myr Welder exiles/imprints a Myr Propagator . The welder would then gain an ability to put a token that's a copy of itself onto the battlefield.
I understand the token copy would lack the imprinted Propagator, but would it still retain the self-copying ability, because that was an activated ability of the Welder at the time of copying?
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #2
When a card uses its own name in its rules text, it means "this object, right here", and if a card with a different name somehow gains that ability, it will refer to itself instead of the original card, but from your question I think you already know that.
A copy effect copies everything written on the original card, the results of any other copy effects the original is currently subject to, and nothing else. In your situation you'll get a fresh Myr Welder token with the normal Welder abilities and nothing else.
GreatSword says... #1
No it wouldn't. Whenever a card refers to itself by name, it really means "This specific object". When you create a token copy of the Myr Welder , you get a new Myr Welder with no cards imprinted on it yet. The only characteristics a token copy gains from its original are the printed values on the card (color, name, p/t, abilities printed on the card, etc). The new copy won't have any of the imprinted information it's original had.
August 13, 2014 10:41 a.m.