Reenact the Crime

Constraints on Copy Effects

The next time you want to make something like Doppelgang, how about \we restrict it to that player's side of the board, okay? or restrict it to a certain mana value? Recently, it seems like you guys have decided to have spell intrude on other players' permanents more than usual and it's really getting tiring. Of course, having spells that constantly making tokens is tiring enough. How about we reel it in some more, okay?

Alpha has four cards that can copy something of your opponent’s (Clone, Copy Artifact, Fork, & Vesuvan Doppelganger). Murders of Karlov Manor has three (Doppelgang, Lazav, Wearer of Faces, & Reenact the crime). It has one more card (Kaya, Spirit’s Justice) that copies your own stuff. Copying your opponent’s stuff is not new to Magic. I hear you that we need to be careful how it gets used. Token making, in contrast, has gone way up since the early days. Part of that is the addition of token cards to help manage them. Part of it is the huge popularity of them. And part of it is they allow access to new design space which thirty-one years in is an important tool. But I do hear you that perhaps we’re pushing boundaries with them.

Artifacts Clone Copy Artifact Design Space Doppelgang Lazav, Wearer of Faces Mana Value Permanents Reenact the Crime Spells Spirit Tokens Vesuvan Doppelganger

Prelease Deck Showcase

At the prerelease one player had 7 Slime against Humanity (2 were foil) it was really impressive watch their opponant just unable to really manage it, kind of reminded me of Pack Rat. But the two most egregious deck was the ultimate winner with 4 mythics and 4 rares with 2 copies of Aurelia's Vindicator, Incinerator of the Guilty and Argus Kos, then double Elegant Parlor, Wojek Investigator and Krenko, with 3 copies of Lighting Helix to really round out the deck. While my first round opponant got dual lands for 5 rares, Reenact the Crime and Archdruids Charm, they had only 4 removal and only 2 flyers in their whole pull. Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes Oko shows up and steals all your playable rares. Overall the games were some of the most fun nearly every player I spoke with had in years. Great job.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Aurelia's Vindicator Dual Lands Dual Lands Elegant Parlor Foils Incinerator of the Guilty Lands Mythic Rares Pack Rat Prerelease Rares Rat Reenact the Crime Sealed Format Slime Against Humanity Wojek Investigator

Pie Break: Reenact

Reenact the Crime feels like a big color pie break because it allows blue to reanimate creatures and enchantments. Is that something that blue gets to do now as long as it’s a “copy”?

It has to have been put there this turn, so it’s not far from copying a permanent. I agree it’s pushing a bit into black’s space.

Black Blue Color Pie Creatures Enchantments Reenact the Crime

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