Gideon and Right of Replication

Asked by sttmccln 10 years ago

If you turned Gideon, Champion of Justice into a creature until end of turn, could you Right of Replication him? I ask the same for any other card that copies creatures.

Jimhawk says... #1

Sure, but you'd have to place all but one into the graveyard because of the planeswalker uniqueness rule. So it wouldn't accomplish much of anything.

December 25, 2014 2:53 p.m.

sttmccln says... #2

But it would copy the indestructible human soldier creature not necessarily gideon, right?

December 25, 2014 2:57 p.m.

sttmccln says... #3

Oh wait, from gatherer "Gideon, Champion of Justice's second ability causes him to become a creature with the creature types Human and Soldier. He remains a planeswalker with the planeswalker type Gideon. (He also retains any other card types or subtypes he may have had.) Each subtype is correlated to the proper card type: Gideon is just a planeswalker type (not a creature type), and Human and Soldier are just creature types (not planeswalker types)."

December 25, 2014 2:58 p.m.

swkelly89 says... #4

also. all questions belong in the Q&A section which you can find at the top of the page

December 25, 2014 3:13 p.m.

Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #5

Even if Gideon, Champion of Justice's ability caused Gideon, Champion of Justice to no longer be a planeswalker (similar to Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker's first ability), Rite of Replication (there's a difference between "right" and "rite") would still produce token copies of the planeswalker. Copy effects copy the written text of the object in addition to any text-changing effects (the effect must specify that it changes the text) and any copy effects.

Also, rules questions belong in the Q&A, which is linked in the header bar. I can't move this to the Q&A, so I'm moving it to BE instead.

December 25, 2014 3:35 p.m.

The_Raven says... #6

Epochalyptik, please, people can't seem to find the "MTG Q&A" thing... Why not make a "menu" in the forum, which leads to the Q&A? Then people can go to the forums, and ask questions!

December 25, 2014 5:21 p.m.

Epochalyptik says... #7

@NorthernRaven: I've suggested that in the past, but I can't actually implement it. That one's on yeaGO.

December 25, 2014 5:53 p.m.

The_Raven says... #8

I'm really looking forward to it yeaGO! :)

December 25, 2014 6:22 p.m.

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