Myriad and Added Creature Abilities
Asked by WarpedZerghead 4 years ago
If the creature has Blade of Selves + Grafted Exoskeleton, will the copied token have infect?
Tylord2894 says... Accepted answer #2
Unlife is mostly correct here, but there are some very important things that aren't quite correct.
First, to address the question at hand, any copy or Clone of a permanent will not have the abilities granted to that permanent by the majority of effects. Such effects include that of Equipment like Grafted Exoskeleton, Auras like Phyresis, and effects grant by static abilities like that of Triumph of the Hordes (keeping with the Infect theme, though there are plenty of other examples).
Now, this does not mean that copies/ clones ONLY copy what's printed on a card. Rather, they copy a permanent's copiable values. The copiable values of an object are determined in layer 1. Most of the time, this is what's "printed on the card", but there are several common effects that change an object's copiable values. Among the most common are Mutate, Clone effects, and (technically) Transform/Morph/Manifest type effects.
As a quick example, let's say my Clone copies my Bear Cub while I also control a Grizzly Bears. I then make tokens of this "Clone" with Blade of Selves. I can not have these token enter as copies of Grizzly Bears even though Clone says so. Rather, after I cloned the Cub, its copiable values became those of Bear Cub.
I know this is a lot, but I hope this helps!!
August 18, 2020 5:10 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #3
CR reference for how copy effects work. There are some modifications to just "copies the values printed on the card", but for the most part Unlife is right.
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.
August 18, 2020 5:12 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #4
WarpedZerghead: Answers to your question have been up for a while. Since there don't seem to be any follow-ups or corrections to be made, I marked one of them as the "Accepted answer" so that this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. Please remember to take care of this yourself in the future.
August 24, 2020 8:36 a.m.
WarpedZerghead says... #5
Oops, seemed to have missed that button: yes this discussion has been properly answered.
Unlife says... #1
No, it only copies the equipped creature as the card was printed, no other equipment or auras
August 18, 2020 3:46 p.m.