Espers to Magicite is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Exile each opponent's graveyard. When you do, choose up to one target creature card exiled this way. Create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's an artifact and it loses all other card types.
How it works : Espers to Magicite
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The token is an artifact instead of its other types. This is a copiable value of the token that other effects may copy.
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- #2· Wizards of the Coast
You don't choose a target for Espers to Magicite at the time you cast it. Rather, a second "reflexive" ability triggers when you exile each opponent's graveyard this way. You choose a target for that ability as it goes on the stack. Each player may respond to this triggered ability as normal.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied card has
in its mana cost, X is 0.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If a card copied by the token had any "when [this permanent] enters" abilities, the token also has those abilities, and they'll trigger when it's created. Similarly, any "as [this permanent] enters" or "[this permanent] enters with" abilities that the token has copied will also work.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Except for the listed exceptions, the token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else. It doesn't copy any information about the object the card may have been at any point before it was exiled.
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