March of the Machine · MOM · uncommon
Battle — Siege // Artifact
wotc · 2023-04-14
Overloaded Mage-Ring has received an update to its official rules text. The sentence allowing you to choose new targets for the copy was inadvertently omitted.
wotc · 2023-04-14
A copy of a spell is created on the stack, so it’s not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won’t trigger.
wotc · 2023-04-14
If you copy a spell, you control the copy. It will resolve before the original spell does.
wotc · 2023-04-14
The copy will have the same targets as the spell it’s copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can’t choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
wotc · 2023-04-14
If the spell that’s copied is modal (that is, it includes a choice from a bulleted list of effects), the copy will have the same mode. A different mode can’t be chosen.
wotc · 2023-04-14
If the spell that’s copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy will have the same value of X.
wotc · 2023-04-14
If the spell has damage divided as it was cast, the division can’t be changed (although the targets receiving that damage still can). The same is true of spells that distribute counters.
wotc · 2023-04-14
You can’t choose to pay any alternative or additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any alternative or additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy.
wotc · 2023-04-14
Sieges each have an intrinsic triggered ability. That ability is “When the last defense counter is removed from this permanent, exile it, then you may cast it transformed without paying its mana cost.”
wotc · 2023-04-14
As a Siege enters the battlefield, its controller chooses an opponent to be its protector.
wotc · 2023-04-14
A Siege’s controller can’t be its protector. If a Siege’s protector ever gains control of it, they choose a new player to be its protector. This is a state-based action.
wotc · 2023-04-14
If a non-battle permanent that is already on the battlefield become a copy of a Siege, its controller chooses one of their opponents to be that battle’s protector. However, it will most likely be put into its owner’s graveyard because it has no defense counters (see below).