What happens if you Copy Land a Moon Land made by Princess Yue?
Asked by ContraMundi 1 month ago
Hi,
what happens if I use Copy Land to copy a moon land Princess Yue?
I read that it enters than as Princess Yue again since that values that make her a moon land are not copyable values? Do I then need to sacrifice either of them because of the legendary rule or not since they are named differently?
Also whap happens if I use Copy Land on a moon land that was a different creature before let's say Consecrated Sphinx?
Or what happens if I use Copy Land on a moon land that was a clone like Clever Impersonator in detail?
And are those interactions the same for Vesuva & Thespian's Stage or are they different?
Sorry for the long questions but these are really complicated interactions :D
Thank you so much!
ContraMundi says... #2
Alright. Thank you already for the detailed answer.
The Consecrated Sphinx for example would in this case be turned into a land by equiping it with Blade of Shared Souls turning it into Princess Yue, dying to the legendary rule and returning as a moon land. So I guess Copy Land would then turn into an enchantment creature Consecrated Sphinx again if I understood you correctly.
Clever Impersonator would also copy Princess Yue, die to the legendary rule, return and copy the Consecrated Sphinx still as a creature and turn into a "Consecrated Sphinx Moon Land". At this point it is unclear to me what would happen if I Copy Land that. But from your answer regarding copyable effects I guess it would also become an enchantment creature Consecrated Sphinx again?
Would that mean that Vesuva and Thespian's Stage would also enter as or become a creature Consecrated Sphinx?
Thank you again
December 11, 2025 4:27 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
Sorry, I didn't understand the first time that all of the secondary questions were also based on a Consecrated Sphinx becoming a Moon.
Yes, it looks like you have the right idea in all of those situations.
- In the first one, Copy Land would be a Sphinx with the added enchantment type
- In the second one where Impersonator comes back as a Sphinx/Moon land, its copiable values are just the characteristics of a regular Sphinx, not the Moon land part from the Princess effect, so any copies of it will be a Sphinx
- And for Vesuva and Thespian's stage, yes they would be Sphinges
December 11, 2025 5:32 p.m.
Awesome all those interactions make sense, the only thing I can’t fully understand is when the Clever Impersonator comes back to copy the Sphinx and become a Moon is it still legendary and named Moon? This would mean I could only Moonify one Card at a time?
December 14, 2025 5:45 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #5
It will be named Moon but it won't be legendary. The ability from Princess Yue that brings it back only changes the name to Moon, sets the type to land, and gives the mana ability. It doesn't add the legendary supertype. The "It's still legendary" reminder text on Princess Yue is a reminder that for the Princess, herself, the type-changing effect of the ability only changes her card types, not her supertype.
December 15, 2025 10:32 a.m. Edited.
Rhadamanthus says... #6
ContraMundi: An answer to your question has been up for a while. Since there don't seem to be any follow-ups or corrections that need to be made, I marked it as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future you can take care of this yourself using the "Mark as Answer" button on the response that you feel is the most helpful answer to your question.
I try to avoid marking my own responses when I do this, but in this case it was the only option.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
Lots of stuff going on here, but the key thing to keep in mind is that an object's copiable values are its base characteristics as modified by the results of any copy effects being applied to it.
In the first question, the copy will just be Princess Yue. She has a different name from the one who's turned into a Moon, so the Legend Rule doesn't get applied.
For the Consecrated SphinxGC question, it depends on how the Sphinx was turned into a land. If it was from a type-changing effect like Song of the Dryads then the copy will just be a Sphinx with the added enchantment type from Copy Land's effect. If it somehow became a land through a copy effect being applied to it (I don't have an example but there's certainly some way to do it), then the copy will be that land plus the enchantment type.
Because Clever Impersonator (making this a land is hard because of the restriction, but possible), Vesuva and Thespian's Stage all function by way of copy effects, any copy of them will also be a copy of whatever they copied. A copy of a Stage pretending to be something will still have the ", " ability because having that ability is part of the copy effect.
December 11, 2025 2:51 p.m.