Kiki-Jiki / Duplicant interaction

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Question:

I have a Duplicant in play that has copied a creature (any creature).

I play Kiki-Jiki, and tap it targeting the Duplicant card.

Is the token generated as another Duplicant that can copy another creature,
or does it come in as the copied card?

AWE

 

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"AWE" <ArkonTT@hotmail.com> writes:
> I have a Duplicant in play that has copied a creature (any
> creature).

Careful: Duplicant isn't really "copying" it in the Magic definition
of that word. It just has that card's power, toughness, and creature
types.

> I play Kiki-Jiki, and tap it targeting the Duplicant card.
>
> Is the token generated as another Duplicant that can copy another creature,
> or does it come in as the copied card?

Duplicant's effect isn't a copy effect, so the creature-token-copy
doesn't see it. It comes into play as a Duplicant, and has the
Duplicant's comes-into-play and power/toughness/type-setting ability.

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Peter C.
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On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 19:13:51 -0400, AWE <ArkonTT@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Question:
>
>I have a Duplicant in play that has copied a creature (any creature).

Well, that has the power and toughness and creature types of a creature (any
creature); it doesn't actually 'copy' anything.

>I play Kiki-Jiki, and tap it targeting the Duplicant card.
>
>Is the token generated as another Duplicant that can copy another creature,
>or does it come in as the copied card?

Duplicant can't copy anything; it's just an artifact creature with an Imprint
ability. SINCE Duplicant hasn't copied anything, Kiki-Jiki's token copy
doesn't copy -any- effects affecting the Duplicant - it just copies the
Duplicant's own text.

So you get a token Duplicant coming into play, which has its own Imprint
ability, with which it can remove target nontoken creature from the game ...
so, like Soul Foundry imprinting a Duplicant, this is quite an efficient
little method of creature removal/control...

Dave
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