Kickers cloned and legend rule
Asked by ManaSuro 6 years ago
When you copy a spell such as Rite of Replication using the ability of Zada, Hedron Grinder or any other copying card, can I pay the kicker on those copies? Also using mentioned cards above, if I cloned Zara and kicked it for 5 copies.. it would still count as 5 allies hitting the field even tho 4 would fizzle immediately they still had to hit the field correct?
Expanding on the above answer, you will also create five copies of every other creature you control.
June 7, 2019 4:32 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #4
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dragonstryke58 says... Accepted answer #1
When copying a spell on the stack, all copiable values are also copied. This includes whether a kicker cost was also paid.
706.2. When copying an object, the copy acquires the copiable values of the original object’s characteristics and, for an object on the stack, choices made when casting or activating it (mode, targets, the value of X, whether it was kicked, how it will affect multiple targets, and so on). The “copiable values” are the values derived from the text printed on the object (that text being name, mana cost, color indicator, card type, subtype, supertype, rules text, power, toughness, and/or loyalty), as modified by other copy effects, by its face-down status, and by “as . . . enters the battlefield” and “as . . . is turned face up” abilities that set power and toughness (and may also set additional characteristics). Other effects (including type-changing and text-changing effects), status, and counters are not copied.
If you did copy your Zada, Hedron Grinder with Rite of Replication and paid the kicker, you will have 5 copies of Zada, Hedron Grinder enter the battlefield. Then you will have to move 5 of your Zada, Hedron Grinder s to the graveyard due to the legend rule (since you would control six; 1 original and 5 copies).
June 7, 2019 12:01 a.m.