Children of the Cult Whenever a creature with an infection counter on it dies, you create a token thats a copy of that creature, except its a Tyranid in addition to its other types
A 7/3 Creature with Trample probably isnt going to survive combat, but it will deal damage to an opponent
But agree entirely we need at least the CRs to answer this.Philip Kendall Philip Kendall2023-04-04 17:44:55 +00:00Commented Apr 4, 2023 at 17:44 3I don't have the reference, but Maro has said on his blog that backup specifically only interacts with abilities printed on the card itself to avoid mutate or copy shenanigansArcanist Lupus Arcanist Lupus2023-04-04 17:45:31 +00:00Commented Apr 4, 2023 at 17:45 2 Answers 2 This is answered by Mark Rosewater in the March of the Machine Learning, Part 2 article: Backup was created (by Ari Nieh) as another means to show the inhabitants of the various planes working together
Shuffling a card away is the best kind of removal there is, as it becomes much harder to retrieve that resource back and gets around cards that can't be Destroyed
I dont know if this is in one deck or five, so until we know more, this is a wait and see card