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Shaun, Father of Synths
Legendary Creature — Human Scientist
Shaun wants a deck that copies the best creature on the table. It also suits a deck that makes an army of small creatures and attacks with all of them.
- Mana cost
- Blue, Red ()
- Power / toughness3 / 4
- RarityRare
Whenever you attack, you may create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of target attacking legendary creature you control other than Shaun, except it's not legendary and it's a Synth artifact creature in addition to its other types.
When Shaun leaves the battlefield, exile all Synth tokens you control.
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- Themes
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- Humans
- Legends Matter
- Scientists
Cards That Fit Shaun, Father of Synths
Picked for what they do in Shaun's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Shaun's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.
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Rulings for Shaun, Father of Synths
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Although the token is attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature. This means that abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks won’t trigger when it enters the battlefield attacking.
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any “as [this creature] enters the battlefield” or “[this creature] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the copied creature will also work.
Except for the noted exceptions, the token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
If the copied creature is a token, the token that’s created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token, with the noted exceptions.
If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied, with the noted exceptions.
Shaun’s last ability will exile all Synth tokens you control, not just Synth tokens created by its first ability.
You declare which player, planeswalker, or battle the token is attacking as you put it onto the battlefield. It doesn’t have to be attacking the same player, planeswalker, or battle that Shaun is attacking.
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