illusionist's bracer
Asked by tempest 12 years ago
It's ability says "ability is activated" does that apply only to activated abilities? I'm thinking no cause mana abilities aren't activated abilities.
If so, If I equip it to a creature with undying, undying would trigger twice so it would come into play with 2 counters, right?
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #2
Mana abilities can be activated abilities. Otherwise lands wouldn't work.
"ability . . . is activated" means exactly what it says. card:Illusionist's Bracers's ability triggers only when an activated ability of the equipped creature is activated. Triggered abilities aren't activated, so they don't trigger the copy ability.
January 7, 2013 7:13 p.m.
Ahh ok. Thanks! I can figure out the second question myself.
January 7, 2013 7:19 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
Completely forgot that question, but the answer can be derived from my previous post. Undying is a triggered ability, so it won't be copied. Even if it were copied, the second instance of undying wouldn't do anything because the creature would no longer be in the zone it's expected to be in (the other instance of undying returned it already).
January 7, 2013 8:02 p.m.
Wait, won't it work with triggered abilities?There was an entire MTG article written about this card suggesting using it with Gisela, Blade of Goldnight http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/ftl/228
January 11, 2013 9:43 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #6
The card specifically says it only works with activated abilities.
Mike Cannon isn't directly saying that Gisela, Blade of Goldnight works with card:Illusionist's Bracers, he's saying ping creatures like Kamahl, Pit Fighter do. Unfortunately, he writes poorly, so the meaning of his article is unclear. He just likes doubling things, hence the mention of Gisela.
January 11, 2013 10 p.m.
Ah alright, I honestly just started skimming the article after I realized he wasn't talking about standard...
January 11, 2013 10:34 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #8
Even if it did work with triggered abilities, it still wouldn't do anything in that case. Gisela doesn't have any triggered abilities.
January 11, 2013 10:37 p.m.
Because is a replacement effect, gotcha. I'm just used to the formula of comma = triggered, Colon = activated.
January 12, 2013 12:05 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #10
Triggered abilities only begin with the words at, when, or whenever. If an ability doesn't begin with one of those words, it isn't triggered.
tempest says... #1
card:Illusionist's Bracers. Sorry
January 7, 2013 7:09 p.m.