Multiple instances of imprint on one card
Asked by koylucumert 2 years ago
I want to build a Mairsil, the Pretender commander deck, and while I was tinkering, I thought of something. there are multiple artifacts that have an activated ability that imprints something to it, and many that have an activated ability using the imprinted card. so if mairsil has a caged card of both categories, can it use the other imprinted cards? examples:
1) if I have Mimic Vat and Death-Mask Duplicant, can I exile a creature for 1 mana to imprint to mairsil, and then create a copy of it with mimic vat?
2) if I have Isochron Scepter and Panoptic Mirror, can I exile something and cast it for 2?
3) if I have Myr Welder and Prototype Portal, can I tap mairsil to exile an artifact from my graveyard and then create a copy of it?
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #2
Unfortunately no, that won't work. These abilities work by way of a concept called "linked abilities". One interesting thing about linked abilities is that if another object gains them, they just stay linked to each other and won't link to any other abilities on that object. In each of your examples, you won't be able to get any benefits from the cards Mairsil exiles.
Here are some of the relevant detailed rules from the Comprehensive Rules document :
607.1. An object may have two abilities printed on it such that one of them causes actions to be taken or objects or players to be affected and the other one directly refers to those actions, objects, or players. If so, these two abilities are linked: the second refers only to actions that were taken or objects or players that were affected by the first, and not by any other ability.
607.2a If an object has an activated or triggered ability printed on it that instructs a player to exile one or more cards and an ability printed on it that refers either to “the exiled cards” or to cards “exiled with [this object],” these abilities are linked. The second ability refers only to cards in the exile zone that were put there as a result of an instruction to exile them in the first ability.
607.5. If an object acquires a pair of linked abilities as part of the same effect, the abilities will be similarly linked to one another on that object even though they weren’t printed on that object. They can’t be linked to any other ability, regardless of what other abilities the object may currently have or may have had in the past.
Neotrup says... #1
No. These types of abilities are linked abilities, so the cards need to be exiled by an ability printed on the same card as the ability trying to use them.
December 16, 2021 1:13 p.m.