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5 months ago ::
Feb 01, 2013 - 9:31PM
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island enchanted with Contaminated Ground  , player uses Thespian's Stage  < /span>  to copy it.......does it become an island or a swamp?
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5 months ago ::
Feb 01, 2013 - 9:33PM
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Definitely an island.
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5 months ago ::
Feb 01, 2013 - 9:33PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 17, 2005
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island enchanted with Contaminated Ground , player uses Thespian's Stage < /span> to copy it.......does it become an island or a swamp?
You get an Island with the Thespian's ability. When you copy something you copy what's printed on the card, plus other copy effects. Other effects are not copied.
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5 months ago ::
Feb 01, 2013 - 10:54PM
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ok, so to clarify if a spell (i can't think of one off the top of my head but im sure it exists) said
"Target land is a swamp", thespians would become a swamp instead?
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5 months ago ::
Feb 01, 2013 - 11:26PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 13, 2011
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Whenever one permanent copies another, it copies only what is printed on the original card unless that permanent is itself affected by a copy effect. If a copy effect grants additional abilities, as Thespian's Stage and Lazav, Dimir Mastermind  do, those abilities will be copied as well. If you control an Island  enchanted with Contaminated Ground and target it with Thespian's Stage , you'll get a basic Island with the copy ability. If you then have a second Thespian's Stage copy the first Thespian's Stage, you'll get a basic Island with two instances of the copy ability.
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5 months ago ::
Feb 02, 2013 - 2:38AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 12, 2011
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ok, so to clarify if a spell (i can't think of one off the top of my head but im sure it exists) said
"Target land is a swamp", thespians would become a swamp instead?
To make it clear, Thespians would still become an island. Wether a type changing effect comes from a static ability ( Contaminated Bond  ) or a one shot effect from a spell or ability ( Unstable Frontier  ) doesn't matter, it's not a copying effect so won't be copied.
If Thespians copied a land and is also affected by a spell/ability that changes its land type to swamp, then Thespians would be a swamp. The order in which the copy effect and the type changing effect where created doesn't matter, copy effects are always applied first. If the type changing effect doesn't use the clause "in addition to its other types", Thespians would only be a swamp, no matter what types the copied land had.
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5 months ago ::
Feb 02, 2013 - 5:25AM
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- Celestial Teapots are broken!
Date Joined:
Feb 24, 2007
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Unstable Frontier creates a continuous effect. "One-shot effects" are something different.
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