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Thank you guys, so I can't just take an opponents creature will crazy amounts of ciphers and just make my own. It would be the original creature, nothing more.

If my opponent has {invisible stalker} or really any other creature that has ciphers on it and gets copied say by my {phyrexian metamorph} does my copy get the creature WITH ciphers? It is copying the creature as is, and as is would mean with all abilities "On the card"

{notion thief}. {donate} notion thief. {consecrated sphinx}. On their draw step they die and nothing anyone can do.

Thank you very much I got it now :P

I'm sorry if this was answered elsewhere but I looked and tried to find it in the comprehensive rules to no avail.

I was reading the Elesh Norn Game State article where if player 1 controls {Elesh Norn, grand cenobite} and player 2 casts {banished priest}, banished priest would enter but in response to his ETB activating, the game state would check and he would die before exiling Norn.
This lead me to the question can you respond to ETB abilities after the creature has entered? Or can the game-check only move that fast?

Like p1 plays {captain of the watch} and p2 plays {terminate} in response to the ETB, denying p1 his 3 1/1 soldiers.

Thank you taysby, griffin and abstract for the compliments(?) and for clearing that up. In my {the Mimeoplasm} deck that will actually be a common happening, lazav and Sakashima together.

say I have {Sakashima the impostor} in my hand. {Lazav, dimir mastermind} is on the battlefield under my control currently as himself. I play Sakashima and he enters as a copy of lazav but still with the name Sakashima and the bounce ability as well as lazavs hex proof and grave copy ability.

At this point they do not bomb each other, but if a creature my opponent controls were sent to the grave and both lazav and Sakashima became a copy of that creature, would they then bomb? Sakashima's name appears on the card text to only keep the name as he enters the field, while lazavs text (which is now on the Sakashima in play) says you may have lazav dimir mastermind become a copy of said creature except its name is *still* lazav gains hero of and this ability.

The "name is *still* lazav" even though the name is currently NOT lazav; it's Sakashima the impostor. Would Sakashima's name change to lazav as he used lazavs ability to shapeshift into another creature? Or would he remain Sakashima because the name doesn't change to lazav, it *remains* lazav, which would have no effect if the name was Not lazav. Which it is not.

I'll repost it there, thank you.

Feel free to remove this op.

I'm sorry I don't remember how to hyperlink creature names but say I have Sakashima the impostor in my hand. Lazav, dimir mastermind is on the battlefield under my control currently as himself. I play Sakashima and he enters as a copy of lazav but still with the name Sakashima and the bounce ability as well as lazavs hex proof and grave copy ability.

At this point they do not bomb each other, but if a creature my opponent controls were sent to the grave and both lazav and Sakashima became a copy of that creature, would they then bomb? Sakashima's name appears on the card text to only keep the name as he enters the field, while lazavs text (which is now on the Sakashima in play) says you may have lazav dimir mastermind become a copy of said creature except its name is *still* lazav gains hero of and this ability.

The "name is *still* lazav" even though the name is currently NOT lazav; it's Sakashima the impostor. Would Sakashima's name change to lazav as he used lazavs ability to shapeshift into another creature? Or would he remain Sakashima because the name doesn't change to lazav, it *remains* lazav, which would have no effect if the name was Not lazav. Which it is not.

Do creatures with Level Up start at level 1 or 0?

Not mine but I heard it and thought it was hilarious.

{Spawnsire of Ulamog}. Activate it. Cast 200 {emrakul, aeons torn} with it. They all bomb. (I guess you can play 201 with new legends rule lol).
They ALL shuffle into your library. Play {battle of wits}.

So the ultimatum is {omniscience} and use {alchemist's refuge} to flash the 3 epic spells all at once but is the meantime at least decent?

Those 3 would be: {endless swarm}, {never ending torment}' and {eternal dominion}

[Epic Brawn]

Epic Brawn 100 cards, 0 sideboard 1 {The Mimeoplasm} 1 {Drowned Catacomb} 1 {Hinterland Harbor} 1 {Woodland Cemetery} 1 {Flooded Grove} 1 {Twilight Mire} 1 {Sunken Ruins} 4 {Swamp} 5 {Forest} 5 {Island} 1 {Overgrown Tomb} 1 {Watery Grave} 1 {Breeding Pool} 1 {Dimir Aqueduct} 1 {Simic Growth Chamber} 1 {Golgari Rot Farm} 1 {Crypt of Agadeem} 1 {Miren, the Moaning Well} 1 {Reliquary Tower} 1 {Command Tower} 1 {Academy Ruins} 1 {Halimar Depths} 1 {Mikokoro, Center of the Sea} 1 {Mosswort Bridge} 1 {Lonely Sandbar} 1 {Barren Moor} 1 {Tranquil Thicket} 1 {Everglades} 1 {Coral Atoll} 1 {Jungle Basin} 1 {Alchemist's Refuge} 41 lands 1 {Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger} 1 {Sheoldred, Whispering One} 1 {Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur} 1 {Maga, Traitor to Mortals} 1 {Primordial Hydra} 1 {Djinn of Wishes} 1 {Allosaurus Rider} 1 {Crypt Ghast} 1 {Azusa, Lost but Seeking} 1 {Brawn} 1 {Master Biomancer} 1 {Fathom Mage} 1 {Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon} 1 {Consecrated Sphinx} 1 {Ancient Ooze} 1 {Phyrexian Metamorph} 1 {Clone} 1 {Archaeomancer} 18 creatures 1 {Deadbridge Chant} 1 {Lurking Predators} 1 {Pattern of Rebirth} 1 {Chord of Calling} 1 {Tooth and Nail} 1 {Omniscience} 1 {Endless Swarm} 1 {Neverending Torment} 1 {Eternal Dominion} 1 {Venser's Journal} 1 {Putrefy} 1 {Murder} 1 {Doom Blade} 1 {Dissipate} 1 {Cancel} 1 {Counterspell} 1 {Twincast} 1 {Blue Sun's Zenith} 1 {Nature's Lore} 1 {Ranger's Path} 1 {Farseek} 1 {Mystic Speculation} 1 {Rhystic Study} 1 {Mind's Eye} 1 {Demonic Tutor} 1 {Diabolic Tutor} 1 {Increasing Ambition} 1 {Diabolic Revelation} 1 {Unexpected Results} 1 {Defense of the Heart} 1 {Cyclonic Rift} 1 {Garruk Relentless} 1 {Vraska the Unseen} 1 {Tamiyo, the Moon Sage} 1 {Ghostly Flicker} 1 {Abundance} 1 {Soul Foundry} 1 {Conjurer's Closet} 1 {Sol Ring} 1 {Gilded Lotus} 40 other spells Sideboard

Very Specific instance but is happening a lot to me lately.. If I have a {cast through time} in play and successfully play {unexpected results}, it gets exiled to be cast again on upkeep (assuming it didn't go to my hand if a land was revealed.. I think).
Now on my next upkeep, it is cast again. THIS time, if the result comes up land will unexpected results still return to my hand?

"Equal to the total converted mana cost of OTHER creatures you contol"?

Yeah so if he was a copy of [insert other creature here] would his own mana cost go towards his power/toughness?