Re: Duplicant

Peter wrote:
> From Rosewater's column:
> ***
> Duplicant - This card was created during development. A number of
> players on the Internet have wished that it could copy the entire
> creature instead of just the power, toughness, and creature type.
> Well, the card used to do exactly that. This was what the development
> team had in mind when they created it. But the rules couldn't support
> the mechanic (go look up the ruling on Vesuvan Doppelganger if you
> want to see why) so the change was made very late in development.
> ***
>
> Why couldn't they make it a regular copy effect?

I think because the Doppelgänger (ä in the original) required so many
rulings (http://tinyurl.com/p29b) and created many issues (they (WotC) did
not want to brought up _again_, thinking of CIP effects (Great Whale,
anyone?), leaving game effects, upkeep, and counters on creatures... Also,
it would be a "reprint" of  a banned (in Extended) card, which, as pointed
out in another article, ís something WotC would not do...

/Dennis