Princess Yue + Vesuva
Asked by LilVacation 7 months ago
If I have Princess Yue as a moon land, and copy that land with Vesuva, the Vesuva then becomes a creature version of Yue.
My question is if this interaction can be used to repeatedly recur Yue? If Vesuva Yue dies, it returns as a moon land with the copy land text. If I choose to enter as moon Yue is it reanimating as Yue again or is it a moon land that gains scry 2?
Rhadamanthus says... #2
It's a Moon version of whatever you chose to copy as it entered. If you chose Moon-Yue again, that means it's another legendary land named Moon, so the Legend Rule will apply and you can only keep one of them.
In the layer system that determines an object's characteristics, the results of copy effects are applied very early in the order and text-changing, type-changing and ability adding/removing effects are applied later in the order. When you go through the steps of determining Vesuva's characteristics in your example, you start with Vesuva, layer on the results of its copy effect (here, becoming Princess Yue), then change the name to Moon, change the type to land-only (the legendary supertype is unchanged) and add the mana ability.
February 18, 2026 6:59 p.m.
LilVacation says... #3
Okay that makes perfect sense. Follow up question. If I have a Roil Elemental as a moon land, but that creature was originally a Clever Impersonator, would a Vesuva enter as the Roil or impersonator? I think based on my understanding it would be the Roil Elemental.
February 18, 2026 7:08 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #4
Good question, the base creature would be a Roil Elemental. Copy effects also create new copiable characteristics for other copy effects to read from. The simple example I like to use is if a Clone copies Runeclaw Bear, then another copy of that Bear-Clone will also be a plain old Bear.
Neotrup says... #1
If a copy of Yue dies, it will return to the battlefield. You'll be able to choose a new object to copy, but it will be a land named moon that can tap for colorless (it will still have any color and additional abilities). Since you're choosing a legendary permanent, and already control a legendary permanent named moon, you'll need to choose one to keep and put the other into the graveyard. As they're both lands, neither will trigger to return to the battlefield.
February 18, 2026 6:53 p.m.