Does copying a token summoned by God Pharoh's Gift give the new token Haste?

Asked by Ansem717 5 years ago

God-Pharaoh's Gift creates a 4/4 token and "It gains haste until end of turn."

Hypothetically, I have a Mishra's Self-Replicator in my graveyard and some way to cast a historic spell before attacking, for the sake of this question.

I enter combat and exile Mishra's Self Replicator from my graveyard. I get a 4/4 copy of it, now with Haste. Then I cast a historic card before declaring attacks. MSR's Copy's triggered ability goes on stack, and I pay (1) to create a token copy of this token copy.

Is the new token a 4/4? Does it have haste?

Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1

The copy is a 4/4 black zombie version of Mishra's Self-Replicator without haste.

If God-Pharaoh's Gift was written to say something like "create a token ... with haste in addition to its other abilities" then haste would be one of its copiable characteristics. That is, the haste ability would be part of the token's rules text given to it by Gift's copy effect. However, as-written, that isn't how God-Pharaoh's Gift works. It creates the 4/4 black zombie token copy of the original and then gives it a temporary haste ability.

May 5, 2018 5:39 p.m.