While that's on the stack, use Stet's activated ability to remove the first letter of its own name, becoming "tet, Draconic Proofreader"
Once Counterpart resolves, the token copy enters the battlefield as "Stet, Draconic Proofreader" but the legend rule is not invoked (until end of turn) because it has a different name from the permanent that it copied.
If this example doesn't work, is there a similar one that would?
I know this is fairly pointless, considering that Stet is silver-bordered, but I just got curious.
Essentially yes this will bypass the legend rule. They will still be legendary (because that is a supertype and not related to the name), but because they will each have a technically different name the legend rule will not apply.
There's no way to make this work with "enters the battlefield as a copy" effects such as Clone, is there? I assume that wouldn't work because those copy the copyable information after the creature spell resolves, during which time you cannot respond by activating Stet's ability.
Indeed, in general, a permanent that enters the battlefield as a copy of another object acquires that object's name from the moment it enters, so that the legend rule would apply as necessary before players get priority to activate abilities (C.R. 707.2, 611.3c, 117.5, 704.5j).
But wouldn't removing the first letter of the name be a text changing effect? If so, Clones would work since text changing comes in a later layer than copying. The copy would have the full name, while the original would be missing a letter.
Edit:
Of course, you'll have to remove the first letter from the name of the permanent you want to copy before the Clone comes in.
The example I'm imagining is as follows;
If this example doesn't work, is there a similar one that would?
I know this is fairly pointless, considering that Stet is silver-bordered, but I just got curious.
Thanks
There's no way to make this work with "enters the battlefield as a copy" effects such as Clone, is there? I assume that wouldn't work because those copy the copyable information after the creature spell resolves, during which time you cannot respond by activating Stet's ability.
Edit:
Of course, you'll have to remove the first letter from the name of the permanent you want to copy before the Clone comes in.
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