January 04, 2012, 09:52:14 AM
I built a deck around thisas one way to beat down, but also have a consecrated sphinx jace's archivist combo to mill myself down to pull a lab maniac two ways to win are always better than one. To protect the golems I run turn aside in main board and ranger's guile in side board.
January 04, 2012, 10:30:53 AM
Ranger's Guile ðŸ‘
Turn Aside 👎
One targets your golem, the other doesn't. One will be copied, the other will not.
January 04, 2012, 03:44:16 PM
Well the turn aside is really for burn or other Things that can harm my golems, stop it from targeting one, and it isn't copied for the rest. Of course there isn't much defense against a slagstorm but rangers guile can at least keep my golems afloat.
January 04, 2012, 05:01:41 PM
As soon as they target a golem with a spell, a trigger will be put on the stack to make the copies. Even if you counter the original, the copy effect will use the last known information as it resolves.
January 04, 2012, 09:56:04 PM
As soon as they target a golem with a spell, a trigger will be put on the stack to make the copies. Even if you counter the original, the copy effect will use the last known information as it resolves.
Ranger's guile, to the main board!!
January 04, 2012, 10:16:36 PM
So what would clone do to precursor
January 04, 2012, 10:54:03 PM
Not a heckuva lot. Since it's a creature and not an instant or sorcery,
Clone would ETB as on copy of
Precursor Golem and put two fresh 3/3 golems on the field. That's it.
January 04, 2012, 11:00:13 PM
As I sent that last post, something occurred to me. If you have more than one
Precursor Golem in play, each one will trigger separately. So if you happen to have two of them, for every single spell that targets a golem, that golem will still have one spell targeting it, but
each other golem will have two copies.

That's right, the effects are cumulative. XD
January 06, 2012, 03:15:55 AM
So I made a deck using this combo and I was able to make 200 tokens and 40 precursors
January 06, 2012, 04:02:01 AM
ðŸ™high fives!
January 06, 2012, 10:49:52 AM
Is precursor glomes ability not a triggered response? If it is wouldn't I have a chance to respond to an opponent blasting one of my golems before the spell is copied?
January 06, 2012, 11:09:30 AM
Twisted Image + Labratory Maniac?
Elaboration?
Is precursor glomes ability not a triggered response? If it is wouldn't I have a chance to respond to an opponent blasting one of my golems before the spell is copied?
I want to double check this one, but my understanding is that since the triggered effect isn't targetting the spell that's being copied, the trigger will still resolve. Instead, the triggered ability will use the last known information of the spell before it was countered.