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Flag Sapphire_Prince • October 10, 2012 11:16 AM PDT

If you copy a spell using something such as Nivix Guildmage

to copy a spell, lets say Teleportal

would you have to pay the Overload cost again for Teleportal

???

So you pay the

: for the Teleportal

overload cost, giving all of your creatures the effect. Then pay the

of Nivix Guildmage

to copy Teleportal

... do you have to pay the

again for the overload cost or will the overload cost count as the copy?

Or a more practical example to copy a spell like Dynacharge

for it's overload cost of

. Do you have to pay the overload cost again so your creatures can get +4/+0?

Or another example if your opponent uses an Overload ability and you activate something like Reverberate

to copy it, will you only get the initial effect and so have to also pay the overload price or will you get the full effect of the overload of the copied spell??

Flag Segoth • October 10, 2012 11:19 AM PDT

When you make a copy of a spell it copies all choices made as well. So if you copy a teleportal

that was cast for it's overload cost, the copy will be overloaded too.

Flag Sapphire_Prince • October 10, 2012 11:34 AM PDT

Oct 10, 2012 -- 11:19AM, Segoth wrote:
When you make a copy of a spell it copies all choices made as well. So if you copy a teleportal that was cast for it's overload cost, the copy will be overloaded too.

Excellent