I have a few creatures, Akroma, Vision of Ixidor and Sakashima of a Thousand Faces being two of them. I use Sakashima's Will and have all my creatures become a copy of Akroma, will the Sakashima keep it's abilities, particularly the "legend rule doesnt apply to permanents you control" ability? Or will i get a few copies of Akroma and have to sac all but one due to the legendary ruling?
I have a few creatures, Akroma, Vision of Ixidor and Sakashima of a Thousand Faces being two of them. I use Sakashima's Will and have all my creatures become a copy of Akroma, will the Sakashima keep it's abilities, particularly the "legend rule doesnt apply to permanents you control" ability? Or will i get a few copies of Akroma and have to sac all but one due to the legendary ruling?
No. Keeping Sakashima's other abilities is not a part of "Choose a creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn." You will have to put all but one into the graveyard (not sacrifice).
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.
Example: Chimeric Staff is an artifact that reads, “{X}: Chimeric Staff becomes an X/X artifact creature until end of turn.” Clone is a creature that reads, “You may have Clone enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.” After a Staff has become a 5/5 artifact creature, a Clone enters the battlefield as a copy of it. The Clone is an artifact, not a 5/5 artifact creature. (The copy has the Staff’s ability, however, and will become a creature if that ability is activated.)
Example: Clone enters the battlefield as a copy of a face-down Grinning Demon (a creature with morph {2}{B}{B}). The Clone is a colorless 2/2 creature with no name, no types, no abilities, and no mana cost. It will still be face up. Its controller can’t pay {2}{B}{B} to turn it face up.
704.5j If a player controls two or more legendary permanents with the same name, that player chooses one of them, and the rest are put into their owners’ graveyards. This is called the “legend rule.”
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If Sakashima copied Akroma himself, and then you used Will on the Sakashima, then all the creatures will be Akroma with Sakashima's 'ignore the legend rule' text for copy effects can copy other copy effects.
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No. Keeping Sakashima's other abilities is not a part of "Choose a creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn." You will have to put all but one into the graveyard (not sacrifice).
If Sakashima copied Akroma himself, and then you used Will on the Sakashima, then all the creatures will be Akroma with Sakashima's 'ignore the legend rule' text for copy effects can copy other copy effects.