Stridehangar Automaton and copy abilities

Asked by NTakamura 3 weeks ago

So how does Stridehangar Automaton work with card such as, Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam, Mirrorworks? Would it trigger stridehangar effect or not?

Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1

It doesn't interact with Drafna, for quirky rules reasons, but it does interact with Mirrorworks.

What Stridehangar Automaton's replacement effect (not a trigger because it doesn't start with "when/whenever/at") cares about is whether the token being created is an artifact. Any other details don't matter. Mirrorworks's effect creates a copy of an artifact, so that copy is also going to be an artifact (unless there's something else weird going on) and Stridehangar Automaton will add a 1/1 Thopter as the effect resolves.

In the detailed rules for copying a permanent spell, the resulting token isn't considered to have been "created" for the purposes of effects that care about such things, so there's no interaction with Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam:

608.3f If the object that’s resolving is a copy of a permanent spell, it will become a token permanent as it is put onto the battlefield in any of the steps above. A token put onto the battlefield this way is no longer a copy of a spell and is not “created” for the purposes of any rules or effects that refer to creating a token.

January 27, 2025 9:02 a.m.