If I use Reverberate to copy Mogg Infestation does the copy have no creatures to destroy if I don't change the target player?
Additionaly, what happens to the copied Mogg Infestation if Aether Flash is on the battlefield?
Does it have time to destroy and replace the tokens from the original cast of Mogg Infestation?
If I use Reverberate to copy Mogg Infestation does the copy have no creatures to destroy if I don't change the target player?
No, it is the original that will not destroy any creatures, because the copy already took care of all of them. This is because a copy of a spell usually resolves before the original. (The exception are copies that are created during the resolution of the original spell, like Chain of Plasma.)
edit: After rereading the card's text, a correction is in order on this. Since the tokens are created under "that player's control", they will be destroyd and replaced with even more tokens by the original.
Additionaly, what happens to the copied Mogg Infestation if Aether Flash is on the battlefield?
Does it have time to destroy and replace the tokens from the original cast of Mogg Infestation?
Each token from the copy will trigger the enchantment, and all those triggers will be put on the stack right after the copy resolved, on top of the original, and thus all those triggers will resolve and cause the associated token's death before the original spell gets to resolve.
When you copy a spell, it will go on the stack above the original (C.R. 405.2, 706.10) and, in general, get to resolve before the original (C.R. 116.4). In the case of Mogg Infestation, all creatures controlled by the player targeted by the copy will be destroyed when the copy resolves (C.R. 608.2c), and this will happen before the original Mogg Infestation gets to resolve. If an ability (such as Aether Flash's ability) triggers when a spell resolves (such as a copy of Mogg Infestation), that spell goes to the graveyard (C.R. 608.2k) before that ability goes to the stack (C.R. 116.3b, 116.5) (and to continue the example, the abilities that trigger this way will go on the stack above the original Mogg Infestation and get to resolve before that spell).
If I use Reverberate to copy Mogg Infestation does the copy have no creatures to destroy if I don't change the target player?
Additionaly, what happens to the copied Mogg Infestation if Aether Flash is on the battlefield?
Does it have time to destroy and replace the tokens from the original cast of Mogg Infestation?
Thank you for your time,
Isacc
No, it is the original that will not destroy any creatures, because the copy already took care of all of them. This is because a copy of a spell usually resolves before the original. (The exception are copies that are created during the resolution of the original spell, like Chain of Plasma.)
edit: After rereading the card's text, a correction is in order on this. Since the tokens are created under "that player's control", they will be destroyd and replaced with even more tokens by the original.
Each token from the copy will trigger the enchantment, and all those triggers will be put on the stack right after the copy resolved, on top of the original, and thus all those triggers will resolve and cause the associated token's death before the original spell gets to resolve.
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EDIT (Apr. 28): Correctness edit.