Can Lazav transform?
Asked by ChuckM 5 years ago
Can Lazav, the Multifarious transform if he has copied a card that can transform?
Worse than that, if you somehow make Lazav, the Multifarious a double-face card, maybe by making a Delver of Secrets
Flip a copy of him, the way copy effects are handled keeps jumping through these hoops from actually paying off. Let's say you have your Delver of Secrets
Flip that's a of Lazav and you have it copy another Delver of Secrets
Flip in your graveyard (so now it's almost back to being what's printed, except its named Lazav, the Multifarious, is legendary, and has a cool extra ability to change what it is). During your next upkeep you reveal an instant from the top of your library and transform your creature. It's now got it's Insectile Aberration side face up, is still legendary, is still named Lazav, the Multifarious, still has the ability to copy other things, and is still a 1/1 with an upkeep trigger. Even though it transformed, it's still copying Delver of Secrets
Flip, not Insectile Aberration
Tyrant-Thanatos says... Accepted answer #1
No.
701.27a To transform a permanent, turn it over so that its other face is up. Only permanents represented by double-faced cards can transform.
701.27c If a spell or ability instructs a player to transform a permanent that isn’t represented by a double-faced card, nothing happens.
October 30, 2018 3:04 a.m.