706.10 To copy a spell, activated ability, or triggered ability means to put a copy of it onto the stack a copy of a spell isn’t cast and a copy of an activated ability isn’t activated.

(See rule 603.11.) If another copy effect is applied to that object after applying the copy effect with the linked triggered ability, the ability doesn’t trigger.

706.9f Some replacement effects that generate copy effects are linked to triggered abilities written in the same paragraph.

Other effects (including type-changing and text-changing effects), status, and counters are not copied. is turned face up” abilities that set power and toughness (and may also set additional characteristics). The copiable values are the values derived from the text printed on the object (that text being name, mana cost, color indicator, card type, subtype, supertype, rules text, power, toughness, and/or loyalty), as modified by other copy effects, by its face-down status, and by “as.

706.2 When copying an object, the copy acquires the copiable values of the original object’s characteristics and, for an object on the stack, choices made when casting or activating it (mode, targets, the value of X, whether it was kicked, how it will affect multiple targets, and so on).

(Certain older cards were printed with the phrase “search for a copy.” This section doesn’t cover those cards, which have received new text in the Oracle card reference.) Some effects create a token that’s a copy of another object.

706.1 Some objects become or turn another object into a “copy” of a spell, permanent, or card.

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