Cards And Zones
What Does Copying a Card Actually Copy?
Copy the traits specified by the effect, without transferring the other object's statuses or temporary bonuses.
RiftPal explanation · Answer first
The short answer
Follow the CopyTaking another object’s specified copyable traits, normally its printed or previously copied traits. Later bonuses and statuses are not copied. An object created as a copy starts with the copied traits as its own initial traits.View in Glossary effect's instructions. It uses the original's copyable traits, normally its printed traits, or traits it received from another copy effect. It does not copy the original's BuffPlace a Buff counter on a unit that does not already have one, unless an effect allows more. Each Buff gives that unit +1 Might.View in Glossary s, temporary Might changes or statuses such as being empowered. Existing statuses and temporary modifications on the object becoming a copy remain in place.
RiftPal explanation
How it works
Card reference
Fiora, Victorious
Copyable traits include printed name, supertype, type, tags, cost, domain, Rules Text, Effect TextThe separate text section a card adds to the Rules Text of the card it is attached to. It is inactive while the card is unattached.View in Glossary , Might and Might bonus. A created TokenA game object created by a spell or ability during play, represented by a printed token or another marker. It follows its type's rules but is not a card. After moving to a non-board zone other than the Chain, it immediately ceases to exist.View in Glossary uses its initial traits; an existing CopyTaking another object’s specified copyable traits, normally its printed or previously copied traits. Later bonuses and statuses are not copied. An object created as a copy starts with the copied traits as its own initial traits.View in Glossary uses the traits supplied by its copy effect. An effect that copies only specified traits changes only those traits. Copying text, for example, does not also change the card's name or type.
Champion Unit
Fiora
Victorious
While I'm [Mighty], I have [Deflect], [Ganking], and [Shield]. (I'm Mighty while I have 5+ [Might].)
Copying a CopyTaking another object’s specified copyable traits, normally its printed or previously copied traits. Later bonuses and statuses are not copied. An object created as a copy starts with the copied traits as its own initial traits.View in Glossary uses the traits supplied by its earlier copy effect. It still does not copy later bonuses, granted abilities or statuses that are outside those copyable traits. A TokenA game object created by a spell or ability during play, represented by a printed token or another marker. It follows its type's rules but is not a card. After moving to a non-board zone other than the Chain, it immediately ceases to exist.View in Glossary becoming a copy remains a token, and can acquire the copied card's cost and domain. Copying does not turn a physical card into a token.
Becoming a copy does not reset the receiving object. Its existing BuffPlace a Buff counter on a unit that does not already have one, unless an effect allows more. Each Buff gives that unit +1 Might.View in Glossary , Might modifiers, empowered status, granted Temporary, and attacker or defender designation remain. Do not take those states from the object it copied.
Card reference
Shady Spectacles
Some Equipment attaches first and applies its CopyTaking another object’s specified copyable traits, normally its printed or previously copied traits. Later bonuses and statuses are not copied. An object created as a copy starts with the copied traits as its own initial traits.View in Glossary effect afterward. Any triggered ability gained from that copy arrives too late to trigger from the attachment that already happened. This applies to Shady Spectacles making the equipped unit a copy and to Svellsongur adding copied text to its Effect TextThe separate text section a card adds to the Rules Text of the card it is attached to. It is inactive while the card is unattached.View in Glossary .
Gear
Shady Spectacles
[Equip] [Energy 1] [Order] ([Energy 1] [Order]: Attach this to a unit you control.) As this is attached to a unit, choose another friendly unit. The equipped unit becomes a copy of that unit for as long as this is attached to it.
Attached effect
(I am a copy of the chosen unit.)
Rare exception · Full wording below.
Complete wording · rare density exception
[Equip] [Energy 1] [Order] ([Energy 1] [Order]: Attach this to a unit you control.) As this is attached to a unit, choose another friendly unit. The equipped unit becomes a copy of that unit for as long as this is attached to it.
Attached effect
(I am a copy of the chosen unit.)
A new object created as a copy starts with those copied traits as its own initial traits. It does not need an ongoing copy effect. A Mech tag or Might bonus added later in another layer is not copied.
In practice
Example
Your unempowered unit becomes a copy of an empowered unit. It stays unempowered. If your unit already had a buff or a temporary +2 Might effect, it keeps those modifications.