Cards And Zones
What Happens When a Battlefield Is Replaced by a Token?
The token takes the battlefield's place and inherits its current effects and statuses.
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The short answer
Create the specified 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 in the BattlefieldA Battlefield is a shared location that players compete to control during the game.View in Glossary 's place and put the original in BanishmentA player's off-board zone for banished cards. Its cards are public information and their order does not matter. It is separate from the Trash; some effects use it temporarily.View in Glossary . The token inherits the battlefield's effects and statuses, including control and scoring history. Units and facedown cards stay there. ReplaceCreate a token in another object's place without playing it, inheriting its effects and statuses. The original goes to Banishment, but this does not count as Banishing it.View in Glossary does not play the token and does not count as Banishing the original.
RiftPal explanation
How it works
Use the token's own abilities from now on. For effects that already target or refer to that battlefield, the token counts as the same game object. An ability already on the ChainAn off-board zone that holds cards and abilities during the process of playing them. Cards and abilities on it are public information.View in Glossary can still refer to that location after it is replaced. Replacing a battlefield does not make it a fresh place to score again that turn.
Some effects let the token swap back. When instructed, remove the token and return an eligible original battlefield from Banishment to its place. The returning battlefield inherits the token's current effects and statuses; it does not reset them to how they were before the first replacement.
A token that is itself replaced disappears after entering Banishment, but the new token still takes its place. If replacements happen more than once, an original card replaced earlier in that sequence can still be eligible to return. If no eligible original remains in Banishment, the token cannot swap back.
In practice
Example
Card example
Replacing a battlefield
You have already scored a BattlefieldA Battlefield is a shared location that players compete to control during the game.View in Glossary this turn, then an effect replaces it with Brush. Your units stay there and you keep control. Brush inherits the fact that you have scored there this turn, so replacing the battlefield does not let you score it a second time.
Token Battlefield
Brush
Bird, Cat, Dog, Poro, and Ivern units here have +1 [Might]. When you score here, you may replace this with the battlefield it replaced.