How does Perplexing Chimera interact with Conspire?
Asked by Penguno 5 years ago
Situation:
An opponent has Perplexing Chimera and I have Wort, the Raidmother with a goblin token. I cast something, like Shatter and tap my 2 creatures to conspire it. If my opponent uses his perplexing chimera trigger to gain control of the spell, does he also gain control of the copy as well? Does this rule also apply to other effects that copy spells, like storm, reverberate, etc?
nobu_the_bard says... Accepted answer #2
Generally when a spell is copied, it is not cast. There are some similar effects such as Elite Arcanist which do specifically use the word "cast" (though it actually copied a card - not exactly the same as copying a spell).
Conspire actually has two parts- an optional additional cost that may be paid while casting it ("as you cast the spell ...") and a trigger that is put onto the stack ("When you cast this spell, if its conspire cost was paid, copy it"). Even though Perplexing Chimera's trigger may cause you to lose control of the original spell (its trigger will resolve before the Conspire trigger if you cast the spell on your own turn), you still control the triggered ability that creates the copy, and by extension you also control the copy that trigger creates.
DragonKing90 says... #1
copies of spells are separate entitites from the original. the opponent would only be able to use the Perplexing Chimera to gain control of the original spell. unless a card specifically says it can affect multiple spells on the stack, it only affects 1.
September 22, 2018 1:33 p.m.