What actually gets copied when a creature copies another creature?
Asked by jcofer 9 years ago
When a creature "enter(s) the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield", does it copy all effects on that creature? Does your creature, for example, get all the +1/+1s on the copied creature?
Raging_Squiggle says... #2
To put it simply, if you copy a creature, it'll behave exactly like you also have a physical copy of that copied card.
Everything printed on the card is copied. Anything granted to it by either an effect or an outside characteristic defining ability is not copied.
March 23, 2016 3:01 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... Accepted answer #3
706.2. When copying an object, the copy acquires the copiable values of the original objects 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.
Denial048 says... #1
It copies all copyable details of the creature on the battlefield.
This does not include counters, tokens or buffs.
This does include base power and toughness, name, cmc, and abilities.
March 23, 2016 2:50 p.m.