Weird Interaction at Prerelease

Asked by Master_Tame 1 year ago

Scenario: Thrakkus the Butcher and Tiamat's Fanatics are in play. I cast You Look Upon the Tarrasque targeting my Fanatics. I choose the second mode to give it +5+5 and Indestructible until end of turn. It is now a 9/8.

When I move to combat I declare Fanatics (9/8) and Thrakkus as attackers. Myriad and Thrakkus trigger. I stack them so that Myriad resolves first. I create two token copies of Fanatics (tapped and attacking my opponents). Then the Thrakkus ability resolves and doubles the power of each dragon I control.

Question: What is the power and toughness of each Tiamat's Fanatics in play (there are 3 of them)?

A) All of them are 18/8. B) The original Fanatic is 18/8 the copies are 8/3. C) Other (please explain).

Thanks

Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1

It's option B.

The basic explanation of how copy effects work is that they only copy what's written on the original. They don't take into account any other effect that would have changed any of those characteristics unless those changes were caused by another copy effect (for example, if you copy a Clone that copied a Bear Cub, you get another Bear Cub instead of another Clone).

In this example, that means Myriad creates 4/3 copies of Tiamat's Fanatics and their power gets doubled to 8.

June 10, 2022 12:17 p.m.

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