Does Infinite Reflection copy transformations?

Asked by KrimsonNekros 12 years ago

If i have an Infinite Reflection on a Soul Seizer  ^Flip , do my other creatures transform into Ghastly Haunting  ^Flip when they hit?

aavb132 says... Accepted answer #1

Nope.

• 706.8. When copying a double-faced permanent, only the copiable values of the face that's currently up are copied. (See rule 711, "Double-Faced Cards.")

Copied cards can't transform because only cards that are physically double-faced can do so, and there currently exists no copy card with a back side to it.

It's easier if I just link you. This article has it.

If an effect copies a double-faced card, it copies the characteristics of whichever face is currently showing. It doesn't copy any characteristics of the other face.

The only objects that can transform are cards that physically have two faces. If a token or a card with a regular Magic back is instructed to transform, instead nothing will happen. Even if a token or non-double-faced card is a copy of one face of a double-faced card, it can't transform.

If a double-faced card becomes a copy of something else, the copied values will overwrite its characteristics for as long as the copy effect lasts, even if the double-faced card transforms. If a double-faced card that's copying something else is instructed to transform, it will do so, because the physical card has two faces, but its characteristics will still be those of whatever it's copying. This is true even if the object it's copying is one face of a double-faced card.

April 14, 2013 2:25 a.m.

KrimsonNekros says... #2

Thanks for the help.

April 14, 2013 2:30 a.m.

Tunde says... #3

Regardless on if any other creatures can or cannot transform, this wouldn't work because Infinite Reflection only makes them copies when it enters the battlefield and the other ability only makes the creatures that enter the battlefield afterward become copies and not the ones already on the field.

April 14, 2013 4:26 a.m.

tynansdtm says... #4

Also Infinite Reflection can only enchant creatures, so its put into its owner's graveyard as a state-based action when Soul Seizer  ^Flip transforms and is no longer a creature.

April 14, 2013 6:19 p.m.

Queeook says... #5

What happens after a card that is enchanted with Infinite Reflection transforms? Do any new copies enter the field as the now-face-up side? Specifically, I have the Infinite Reflection on my opponent's Bloodline Keeper that now has transformed into Lord of Lineage.

June 24, 2016 4:18 a.m.