Hello. I have a Mercurial Pretender out that is a copy of a Shivan Dragon. What would happen if I use a Rite of Replication to get a token of the Mercurial Pretender? Would I get a Shivian Dragon Token, Mercurial Pretender token, or as the token enters the battlefield I choose a creature for it to become? Please help if you can!
Copy effects will only copy the "base" stats of the permanent. The only exception is that it will copy other copy effects, including any changes made by those (so the copy of a copy of the Dragon is also a Dragon, plus the ability gained by the first copy as it copied the Dragon)
Yes, if you use Rite of Replication to create a token copy of Cryptoplasm that is already copying something (Shivan Dragon for example) then the new token will have the upkeep triggered ability of Cryptoplasm.
So a token of Cryptoplasm will still change every turn?
Each time Cryptoplasm's ability resolves, Cryptoplasm may become a copy of the targeted creature, except it has that ability. If so, that ability will become part of Cryptoplasm's copiable values (C.R. 706.9a), so that if another creature becomes a copy of Cryptoplasm, it will acquire that ability (C.R. 706.2).
EDIT (Mar. 10, 2019): See comment 10.
EDIT (Jul. 9, 2019): Correctness edit due to changes in Cryptoplasm's Oracle text with Core Set 2020.
EDIT (Jul. 10, 2019): Further correctness edit.
Note that Cryptoplasm still says "...you may have Cryptoplasm become a copy .... If you do, Cryptoplasm gains this ability." However, due to the Core Set 2019 update, the nature of that effect has become unclear — that is, whether the effect "If you do, Cryptoplasm gains this ability" has now become a layer 6 effect, not a layer 1 copy effect, so that the ability can't be copied by other copy effects such as found in Rite of Replication (C.R. 613.1f, 613.1a, 706.2). I have stricken out part of comment 8 because of this unclarity.
Before Core Set 2019, effects that gave a creature an ability upon copying something (within the meaning of C.R. 706.9a) used the formulation "becomes a copy ... and gains...", "becomes a copy ..., except it gains...", and "may have [this creature] become a copy ...[.] If you do, [this creature] gains...". Now, the first two would both be worded "becomes a copy ..., except it has..." (compare Dimir Doppelganger's text as printed in Ravnica: City of Guilds with its Oracle text.) The last was changed to "may have [this creature] become a copy ... except ... it has ..." in the case of Vesuvan Doppelganger, but was somehow retained in the case of Cryptoplasm (compare with Artisan of Forms).
With Core Set 2020, Cryptoplasm's Oracle text was changed, in relevant part, to "...you may have Cryptoplasm become a copy ..., except it has this ability", making it clear that the ability mentioned in that text is part of Cryptoplasm's copiable values, so that it can be copied by other copy effects (C.R. 706.9a, 706.2).
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Also, If the original Shivian Dragon had a Gigantiform enchanted to it would the token be 8/8 and have trample?
Copy effects will only copy the "base" stats of the permanent. The only exception is that it will copy other copy effects, including any changes made by those (so the copy of a copy of the Dragon is also a Dragon, plus the ability gained by the first copy as it copied the Dragon)
Hope that helps.
EDIT (Mar. 10, 2019): See comment 10.
EDIT (Jul. 9, 2019): Correctness edit due to changes in Cryptoplasm's Oracle text with Core Set 2020.
EDIT (Jul. 10, 2019): Further correctness edit.
Note that Cryptoplasm still says "...you may have Cryptoplasm become a copy .... If you do, Cryptoplasm gains this ability." However, due to the Core Set 2019 update, the nature of that effect has become unclear — that is, whether the effect "If you do, Cryptoplasm gains this ability" has now become a layer 6 effect, not a layer 1 copy effect, so that the ability can't be copied by other copy effects such as found in Rite of Replication (C.R. 613.1f, 613.1a, 706.2). I have stricken out part of comment 8 because of this unclarity.Before Core Set 2019, effects that gave a creature an ability upon copying something (within the meaning of C.R. 706.9a) used the formulation "becomes a copy ... and gains...", "becomes a copy ..., except it gains...", and "may have [this creature] become a copy ...[.] If you do, [this creature] gains...". Now, the first two would both be worded "becomes a copy ..., except it has..." (compare Dimir Doppelganger's text as printed in Ravnica: City of Guilds with its Oracle text.) The last was changed to "may have [this creature] become a copy ... except ... it has ..." in the case of Vesuvan Doppelganger
, but was somehow retained in the case of Cryptoplasm (compare with Artisan of Forms).See also this thread and this thread.
Asking the rules manager for clarification.EDIT (Jul. 9, 2019): Edited due to changes in Cryptoplasm's Oracle text with Core Set 2020.