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'''For your reference [CR | '''For your reference [CR 706.10]''': | ||
*''' | *'''706'''. Copying Objects | ||
**'''Example''' | **'''706.10'''. To copy a spell, activated ability, or triggered ability means to put a copy of it onto the stack; a copy of a spell isn’t cast and a copy of an activated ability isn’t activated. A copy of a spell or ability copies both the characteristics of the spell or ability and all decisions made for it, including modes, targets, the value of X, and additional or alternative costs. (See rule 601, “Casting Spells.”) Choices that are normally made on resolution are not copied. If an effect of the copy refers to objects used to pay its costs, it uses the objects used to pay the costs of the original spell or ability. A copy of a spell is owned by the player under whose control it was put on the stack. A copy of a spell or ability is controlled by the player under whose control it was put on the stack. A copy of a spell is itself a spell, even though it has no spell card associated with it. A copy of an ability is itself an ability. | ||
**'''Example''' | **::'''''Example:''' A player casts <c>Fork</c>, targeting an <c>Emerald Charm</c>. Fork reads, “Copy target instant or sorcery spell, except that the copy is red. You may choose new targets for the copy.” Emerald Charm is a green instant that reads, “Choose one — Untap target permanent; or destroy target non-Aura enchantment; or target creature loses flying until end of turn.” When the Fork resolves, it puts a copy of the Emerald Charm on the stack except the copy is red, not green. The copy has the same mode that was chosen for the original Emerald Charm. It does not necessarily have the same target, but only because Fork allows choosing of new targets.'' | ||
**''' | **::'''''Example:''' <c>Fling</c> is an instant that reads, “As an additional cost to cast Fling, sacrifice a creature” and “Fling deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature’s power to target creature or player.” When determining how much damage a copy of Fling deals, it checks the power of the creature sacrificed to pay for the original Fling.'' | ||
***'''706.10a''' If a copy of a spell is in a zone other than the stack, it ceases to exist. If a copy of a card is in any zone other than the stack or the battlefield, it ceases to exist. These are state-based actions. See rule 704. | |||
***'''706.10c''' Some effects copy a spell or ability and state that its controller may choose new targets for the copy. The player may leave any number of the targets unchanged, even if those targets would be illegal. If the player chooses to change some or all of the targets, the new targets must be legal. Once the player has decided what the copy’s targets will be, the copy is put onto the stack with those targets. | |||
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Revision as of 22:14, 2 October 2014
| Epic | |
|---|---|
| Keyword Ability | |
| Type | Triggered |
| Introduced | Saviors of Kamigawa |
| Last used | Saviors of Kamigawa |
| Reminder Text | Epic (For the rest of the game, you can’t cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, copy this spell except for its epic ability. If the spell has any targets, you may choose new targets for the copy.) |
| Statistics |
5 cards 20%  20%  20%  20%  20% |
| Scryfall Search | |
| keyword:"Epic" | |
Epic is a keyword ability that changes the rules for playing spells for the player that plays the epic spell. [1] When an epic spell resolves, it prohibits the player who played it from playing any more spells for the rest of that game. The keyword was introduced in Saviors of Kamigawa and has appeared on the following cycle: Enduring Ideal (white), Eternal Dominion (blue), Neverending Torment (black) and Undying Flames (red), Endless Swarm (green). Template:Epic spells
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Rulings
- The copy of the spell put onto the stack doesn't have the epic ability, so exactly one copy is put onto the stack at the beginning of each of your upkeeps. (You don't get one, then two, then four copies, and so on.)
- Choices made while playing the original epic spell, as well as any alterations made to that spell, are copied. However, the epic ability does allow the player to choose a new target as the copy is put onto the stack.
- A copy of a spell is still a spell, and it can be countered.
- A player can't play spells once he or she resolves a spell with epic, but that player can still play abilities, as well as attack and block.
- Putting a copy of a spell on the stack is not the same as playing a copy. Abilities that put copies of spells directly on the stack work after the epic spell has resolved, but abilities that create copies that you can play don't.
Interactions
Here is a list of things an owner of a epic spell can do after an epic spell has been played and resolved.
- He or she still has all phases; which means he or she will still untap, draw, attack, block, discard (using madness, however, is not allowed; it is playing a spell for an alternate cost), etc.
- He or she can still play lands; this is a game action that only requires the stack to be empty and the player to have priority.
- He or she can use activated abilities on permanents of his or hers that are in play.
- He or she can use abilities which work outside of the in-play zone. For example you can cycle cards as this isn't playing spells. (Some cycling actually triggers some abilities on the cycled card, e.g. when Decree of Pain is cycled, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.)
- He or she can put a copy of a spell on the stack (e.g. Chain Lightning).
- He or she can use channel abilities.
Examples
Refrences
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (May 09, 2005). "Epic Struggles". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.