This interaction seems to imply that the battlecry of Faceless Manipulator makes it so that the game views it that you played the card that is copied. But if that were the case, then if Faceless Manipulator copied a card with a battlecry, that battlecry should activate, since battlecries activate when a card is played, not summoned. In any case, I'm confused. Does anyone have a good explanation why this happened?
To clarify here, the reason I'm confused is that Flobbidinous Floop came onto the board as a 3/4 Malygos. If it had come on the board as a 3/4 Faceless Manipulator that then copied Malygos, it would make sense.
"The flow of time is always cruel... its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days..."
I agree with Pumpkin that it's right as is...but I'll bother to explain why I think that.
It makes sense if playing a minion is the entire act of getting it from your hand into the playfield, and a battle cry is completed by the minion while it is being played. Or in other words, the battle cry is finished before the act of playing the minion is finished.
So while the Faceless is being played it becomes Mally, the end result is that the card that was played is now Mally. So Floop becomes a copy of that.
Like if you bought a white car then painted it blue and later said I'd like my new car to be the same color as the last car I owned -- you'd mean blue.
I agree with Pumpkin that it's right as is...but I'll bother to explain why I think that.
It makes sense if playing a minion is the entire act of getting it from your hand into the playfield, and a battle cry is completed by the minion while it is being played. Or in other words, the battle cry is finished before the act of playing the minion is finished.
So while the Faceless is being played it becomes Mally, the end result is that the card that was played is now Mally. So Floop becomes a copy of that.
Like if you bought a white car then painted it blue and later said I'd like my new car to be the same color as the last car I owned -- you'd mean blue.
I literally created an account to tell you that I love you, and I loved your explaination and I feel smarter after reading this post.
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I just had a strange interaction with Faceless Manipulator and Flobbidinous Floop. I had Malygos on board. They copied it with Faceless Manipulator, but then when they played Flobbidinous Floop, it came on the board as a 3/4 Malygos.
The card text on Flobbidinous Floop reads that it is a 3/4 of the last card you played. The last card my opponent played was Faceless Manipulator. Faceless Manipulator only became Malygos after it was played, as a result of the battlecry.
This interaction seems to imply that the battlecry of Faceless Manipulator makes it so that the game views it that you played the card that is copied. But if that were the case, then if Faceless Manipulator copied a card with a battlecry, that battlecry should activate, since battlecries activate when a card is played, not summoned. In any case, I'm confused. Does anyone have a good explanation why this happened?
To clarify here, the reason I'm confused is that Flobbidinous Floop came onto the board as a 3/4 Malygos. If it had come on the board as a 3/4 Faceless Manipulator that then copied Malygos, it would make sense.
You're right: that's a mistake. I noticed it too
Nah, it's right as it is
"The flow of time is always cruel... its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days..."
I agree with Pumpkin that it's right as is...but I'll bother to explain why I think that.
It makes sense if playing a minion is the entire act of getting it from your hand into the playfield, and a battle cry is completed by the minion while it is being played. Or in other words, the battle cry is finished before the act of playing the minion is finished.
So while the Faceless is being played it becomes Mally, the end result is that the card that was played is now Mally. So Floop becomes a copy of that.
Like if you bought a white car then painted it blue and later said I'd like my new car to be the same color as the last car I owned -- you'd mean blue.
I literally created an account to tell you that I love you, and I loved your explaination and I feel smarter after reading this post.