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,...
Since Trickery only cares about it being "kicked" (rather than, say, a kicker cost being paid), and being kicked is copiable, it appears that it can counter a copy of a kicked spell since the copy is also kicked. I don't really see a distinction here between "was kicked" or "is kicked".
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Since Trickery only cares about it being "kicked" (rather than, say, a kicker cost being paid), and being kicked is copiable, it appears that it can counter a copy of a kicked spell since the copy is also kicked. I don't really see a distinction here between "was kicked" or "is kicked".
Ertai's Trickery counters that spell "if it was kicked." Which is true. It was.
That is to say, we don't need to have an answer to that distinction because Magic doesn't get us to ask if things "are kicked".
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