I'm wondering how the rebound mechanic interacts with God-Eternal Kefnet.
Let's say I draw Distortion Strike and choose to copy it with Kefnet's ability. Kefnet is one of the few cards that copies a spell in your hand, and then allows you to cast it. Most of the time, when you copy a spell with rebound, the rebound ability doesn't do anything because that spell was not cast from your hand. However, with Kefnet, it is.
So my question is, does rebound work as normal on the copy? Or does the copy fizzle after exiling itself from the stack during resolution as part of the rebound ability? Or something else?
Any copy of a card that is not on the stack or the battlefield the next time state based actions are checked ceases to exist. This means, that your copy of the rebound spell vanishes from exile as soon as the it finishes resolving. There is nothing preventing the copy from going to exile to set up a rebound, though, there just won't be anything to rebound when the trigger resolves in your next upkeep.
704.5. The state-based actions are as follows:
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704.5e If a copy of a spell is in a zone other than the stack, it ceases to exist. If a copy of a card is in
any zone other than the stack or the battlefield, it ceases to exist.
I'm wondering how the rebound mechanic interacts with God-Eternal Kefnet.
Let's say I draw Distortion Strike and choose to copy it with Kefnet's ability. Kefnet is one of the few cards that copies a spell in your hand, and then allows you to cast it. Most of the time, when you copy a spell with rebound, the rebound ability doesn't do anything because that spell was not cast from your hand. However, with Kefnet, it is.
So my question is, does rebound work as normal on the copy? Or does the copy fizzle after exiling itself from the stack during resolution as part of the rebound ability? Or something else?
Thanks in advance
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