what happens with clever impersonator with cards that make it get exiled at the end step, let's say.... Whip of Erebos or mimic vat. What if it enters the battlefield and copies a non creature do you still have to exile it at the end step?
Quote from: Bodhainebrennan on February 04, 2015, 01:12:21 PM
what happens with clever impersonator with cards that make it get exiled at the end step, let's say.... Whip of Erebos or mimic vat. What if it enters the battlefield and copies a non creature do you still have to exile it at the end step?
Yep it still gets exiled
{whip of ErebOs}
{mimic vat}
{clever impersonator}
Are u sure about that? I would understand if it said "it gains haste, and exile this card at the beginning of the next end step". That would mean the card now has that printed on it. Can we get a ruling on this please?
If you whip impersonator, it will get exiled at end of turn. Not so sure what happens if you copy a whipped creature. Ruling on whip states the exile is not an ability of the creature.
15-9-2013 Whip of Erebos grants haste to the creature that's returned to the battlefield. However, neither of the "exile" abilities is granted to that creature. If that creature loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.
Quote from: GlowackAttack on February 04, 2015, 03:11:32 PM
{Seance} and populate let you keep the token,so I'd imagine that clever impersonator keeps the erebosed card
That was what I thought. Unsure however and can't locate a proper ruling, unless you extrapolate from the ruling above that the exile effect is not the creatures ability thus won't be a copiable value.
Well if it becomes a copy of a permanent, does it still retain being a creature type, or does the copy become a complete copy of the card (let's say planeswalker) and no longer is consider a creature? If it ceases to be a creature type, it should remain on the battlefield, otherwise if it still is a clever impersonator with creature type even though it copies a planeswalker (planeswalker creature?) it would be off the battlefield at EoT
"Creature card" only matters when you return the card to the battlefield - you can't return an artifact, planeswalker, land, etc The returned card would still be exiled at the end step even if it was no longer a creature.
Yet another reason to make a {Sundial of the Infinite} deck.