Using flashback, I cast
Increasing Ambition from my graveyard (" If Increasing Ambition was cast from a graveyard, instead search your library for two cards and put those cards into your hand. "). Then I copy that spell (e. g. with
Reverberate). Do I get to search for two cards for the copy too?
My
Sage of Hours (" Remove all +1/+1 counters from Sage of Hours: For each five counters removed this way, take an extra turn after this one.") is equipped with
Illusionist's Bracers. I remove five +1/+1 counters to activate the Sage's ability and get an extra turn. Do I get another extra turn for the copied ability?
CR 706.2 tells us that “the copy acquires the copiable values of the original object's 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)”. I'm not sure whether using alternative costs to be able to cast the card from a different zone is a “choice” complying to that rule, and whether the zone it was cast from is also included in that choice and hence copied. The copy itself was never cast but put on the stack by an effect.
Same for
Sage of Hours, removing all counters was just the activation costs and hardly a choice, and I'm not sure whether the information on how many counters have been removed is known to the copy. No counters have been removed for the copy itself.
Is there a way to easily decide what's copied when it comes to effects that relate to costs or zones? That would be very helpful!
Mario Haßler
Edit/PS: I have found another example for these questions: I cast
Ribbons of Night or
River's Grasp and spend both black and blue mana, then copy that spell (e. g. with
Mirari). Does the copy acquire that it has been cast with black and blue mana, or are the conditions never met because the copy hasn't been cast at all?
Edited Mario Haßler (May 9, 2014 12:37:57 AM)