Jeleva and Mirror March

Asked by SpecimeN87 5 years ago

So with Mirror March in play and Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge etb for x as 10, do the tokens also register x being 10 before the legend rule kicks in? Or would it depend upon how the stack is ordered that the tokens register x at all, as it's in Jeleva's text box?

Gidgetimer says... #1

You didn't pay any mana to cast the copies. X is 0 for the copies.

October 12, 2019 9:42 p.m.

SpecimeN87 says... #2

Is that regardless of stack ordering?

October 13, 2019 12:14 p.m.

Kogarashi says... Accepted answer #3

Regardless of stack ordering.

Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge 's ability says that "X is the amount of mana spent to cast Jeleva." In Magic terms, the inclusion of Jeleva's name here means "X is the amount of mana spent to cast [this particular game object]."

Each token copy will contain a copy of this ability, but the "Jeleva" they are each referring to is themselves. You don't spend any mana to cast the copies at all, because you don't cast them, you simply create them and they enter the battlefield. Since you spent no mana to cast them, X will be zero.

The order of the stack doesn't affect things at all in this case.

October 13, 2019 12:29 p.m.