Usually, when you cast an Aura like Animate Dead, you have to choose a target and your opponent has a chance to respond. If I understand correctly, as Copy Enchantment enters the battlefield, if it copies an aura, you just choose a legal permanent to enchant (it could be shroud) and your opponent doesn't get priority to respond before the creature is actually enchanted.
It brings me to Necromancy, because it has many erratas and a really weird oracle text (Animate Dead too but it is an Aura whereas Necromancy is not). The oracle text says "target". Do you have to choose a target as you cast Necromancy? If so, what happens if it's actually Copy Enchantment that is casted? Necromancy says that it becomes an aura enchanting the creature returned to the battlefield with it, but would there actually be any creature returned to the battlefield if Copy Enchantment copies Necromancy? Or is Necromancy's targeting part of the ETB triggered ability?
My own rules when building a Commander deck:
1) Underrated general that I can build around but the deck must work without him/her too.
2) Every card must be legal in both banlists.
3) No infinite combo that could win (and ruin) instantly a multiplayer game.
4) Synergy at all costs; stay on theme, avoid goodstuff.
You choose the target for Necromancy when you put its trigger on the stack, just like cards such as Oblivion Ring, which is after it has entered the battlefield, not when you cast it (despite the printed wording).
So Copy Enchantment works the same way.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Rules Advisor
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Copy Enchantment
Animate Dead
Usually, when you cast an Aura like Animate Dead, you have to choose a target and your opponent has a chance to respond. If I understand correctly, as Copy Enchantment enters the battlefield, if it copies an aura, you just choose a legal permanent to enchant (it could be shroud) and your opponent doesn't get priority to respond before the creature is actually enchanted.
It brings me to Necromancy, because it has many erratas and a really weird oracle text (Animate Dead too but it is an Aura whereas Necromancy is not). The oracle text says "target". Do you have to choose a target as you cast Necromancy? If so, what happens if it's actually Copy Enchantment that is casted? Necromancy says that it becomes an aura enchanting the creature returned to the battlefield with it, but would there actually be any creature returned to the battlefield if Copy Enchantment copies Necromancy? Or is Necromancy's targeting part of the ETB triggered ability?
Rules Advisor
Pauper decks: Weenie Tokens — Zombies
My own rules when building a Commander deck:
1) Underrated general that I can build around but the deck must work without him/her too.
2) Every card must be legal in both banlists.
3) No infinite combo that could win (and ruin) instantly a multiplayer game.
4) Synergy at all costs; stay on theme, avoid goodstuff.
So Copy Enchantment works the same way.