Kimahri, Valiant Guardian 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
Vigilance Ronso Rage — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Kimahri and tap target creature an opponent controls. Then you may have Kimahri become a copy of that creature, except its name is Kimahri, Valiant Guardian and it has vigilance and this ability.
How it works : Kimahri, Valiant Guardian
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If the target creature is an illegal target as Kimahri's last ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't put a counter on Kimahri, and Kimahri won't become a copy of anything.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature is a token, Kimahri copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token, with the listed exceptions.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Kimahri copies exactly what was printed on the original creature, with the listed exceptions (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 any Auras or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its types, color, power and toughness, and so on.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature has
in its mana cost, X is 0.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature is copying something else, then Kimahri becomes a copy of whatever that creature is copying, with the listed exceptions.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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