I control a Soul Sculptor and a Grizzly Bears. I activate my Soul Sculptor's ability and make my Grizzly Bears an enchantment with no abilities. Then I cast Clever Impersonator. I choose to have my Impersonator enter the battlefield as a copy of my Grizzly Bears. What happens? Is my Clever Impersonator now an ordinary Grizzly Bears, or will it become a Grizzly Bears that's also an enchantment and has no abilities?
What would also happen in the above example if, instead of Grizzly Bears, Soul Sculptor's ability was used on a creature that was already also an enchantment, like Lucent Liminid? Would the Soul Sculptor cause the Liminid to lose all of its other types, simply making it a noncreature enchantment, or would something else happen?
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First of all, casting the Clever Impersonator ends the effect of Soul Sculptor, so even if there was some kind of interaction between the two you wouldn't see it under these scenarios.
So lets assume you didn't cast your Impersonator but put it into play with something like Quicksilver Amulet.
You have a normal Grizzly Bear, the same is true for Lucent Liminid. Clones don't see the card as it exists on the battlefield, they see the cards copiable values. A cards copialbe values are exactly what is printed on the card, or whatever is granted to the card by other copy effects.
No matter what state the Bear is currently in, either under the effects of Soul Sculptor or Song of the Dryads, a clone will enter as a simple Bear. However if you use something like Quicksilver Gargantuan, its copiable values are going to be whatever the base creature is while still being a 7/7.
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706.2. When copying an object, the copy acquires the copiable values of the original object's characteristics and, for an object on the stack, choices made when casting or activating it (mode, targets, the value of X, whether it was kicked, how it will affect multiple targets, and so on). The "copiable values" are the values derived from the text printed on the object (that text being name, mana cost, color indicator, card type, subtype, supertype, rules text, power, toughness, and/or loyalty), as modified by other copy effects, by its face-down status, and by "as . . . enters the battlefield" and "as . . . is turned face up" abilities that set power and toughness (and may also set additional characteristics). Other effects (including type-changing and text-changing effects), status, and counters are not copied.
Soul Sculptor's effect sets the card type of the target to 'enchantment'. It's a definition, which replaces all current types with the given one, "enchantment". Even though the Liminid is already enchantment, the effect demands that it lose the type 'creature'.
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First of all, casting the Clever Impersonator ends the effect of Soul Sculptor, so even if there was some kind of interaction between the two you wouldn't see it under these scenarios.
So lets assume you didn't cast your Impersonator but put it into play with something like Quicksilver Amulet.
Thanks for catching that. I missed the fact that the Grizzly Bears would stop becoming an enchantment when I wrote this question since the actual scenario I was hoping to get a ruling on is a bit more complicated than this (more moving pieces). I'm glad you understood my intentions.
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What would also happen in the above example if, instead of Grizzly Bears, Soul Sculptor's ability was used on a creature that was already also an enchantment, like Lucent Liminid? Would the Soul Sculptor cause the Liminid to lose all of its other types, simply making it a noncreature enchantment, or would something else happen?
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So lets assume you didn't cast your Impersonator but put it into play with something like Quicksilver Amulet.
You have a normal Grizzly Bear, the same is true for Lucent Liminid. Clones don't see the card as it exists on the battlefield, they see the cards copiable values. A cards copialbe values are exactly what is printed on the card, or whatever is granted to the card by other copy effects.
No matter what state the Bear is currently in, either under the effects of Soul Sculptor or Song of the Dryads, a clone will enter as a simple Bear. However if you use something like Quicksilver Gargantuan, its copiable values are going to be whatever the base creature is while still being a 7/7.
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