would it be shuffled back in or sent to grave
Asked by straven1 9 years ago
If I have a Blightsteel Colossus on the field and play a creature such as Clone or Progenitor Mimic copying blightsteel colossus and then my opponent makes me sacrifice a creature if I choose to sacrifice the copy would that card be shuffled back in to my deck or just go to the graveyard and if it gets shuffled in would the tokens from progenitor mimic allow me to shuffle my deck even though they just disappear
FancyTuesday says... Accepted answer #1
Clone and card copying effects will have the same text as whatever they're copying. Blightsteel Colossus has a replacement effect that shuffles it back into the library whenever it would go into your graveyard, and so does anything that copies it.
Because it's a replacement effect Blightsteel and anything copying it will never actually go to the graveyard. Tokens cease to exist when they change zones as a state-based action, but state-based actions don't check while an effect is resolving, this means that the token is technically shuffled into your deck and then removed, but you can shortcut it by just shuffling. Bottom line is yes, you do shuffle every time a clone of Blightsteel would go to your graveyard.
September 8, 2015 3:34 a.m.