Ciphering?
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Posted on Sept. 22, 2013, 4:09 p.m. by the5ervant
Let's say that I have a creature on the board, and cipher Paranoid Delusions onto it. When that creature deals damage to another player and I choose to play the encoded card, can I cipher Paranoid Delusions again onto a different creature?
Epochalyptik says... #2
Questions like this should be asked in the Q&A.
No. The reminder text of cipher states: "Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost."
Note that the text specifically says "spell card." Because the copy is not actually a card, it can't be encoded onto anything.
September 22, 2013 4:21 p.m.