Gideon copies
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Posted on May 16, 2013, 9:27 a.m. by capriom85
Can I target Gideon, Champion of Justice with something like Cackling Counterpart or Progenitor Mimic while he is a "creature"?
Gideon copies
Can I target Gideon, Champion of Justice with something like Cackling Counterpart or Progenitor Mimic while he is a "creature"?
psychoza says... #2
tl;dr Yes.
See ruling located at http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=366345.
1/24/2013 If you activate Gideon, Champion of Justices second ability and then a creature enters the battlefield as a copy of him, that copy will be just a planeswalker, not a creature. (The effect of Gideons second ability isnt copied, just as the effect of a Giant Growth, for example, wouldnt be copied.) Since both permanents will be planeswalkers with the planeswalker type Gideon, each one will be put into his owners graveyard as a state-based action due to the planeswalker uniqueness rule.
1/24/2013 If you activate Gideon, Champion of Justices second ability and then a permanent thats already on the battlefield becomes a copy of him, that copy will be just a planeswalker, not a creature. If the first Gideon, Champion of Justice is still on the battlefield by the time the copy effect happens, each of those permanents will be put into his owners graveyard as a state-based action due to the planeswalker uniqueness rule. If the first Gideon, Champion of Justice is gone by this time, the other permanent will be put into his owners graveyard as a state-based action for having no loyalty counters on him (unless, for some odd reason, he already had loyalty counters on him).
May 16, 2013 9:41 a.m.