Nashi, Moon's LegacyHow it works & interactions with other cards

Understanding the Replay Ability

Nashi, Moon's Legacy features an attack trigger that targets either a legendary card or a Rat card in your graveyard. When Nashi attacks, you exile that card and create a copy of it in the exile zone. Unlike many other 'copy' effects that put a token directly onto the battlefield, Nashi requires you to cast the copy, meaning you must pay its mana cost and follow timing rules for the card's type.

Step-by-Step Resolution

First, Nashi is declared as an attacker, and his ability goes on the stack; at this point, you choose up to one target legendary or Rat card in your graveyard. Second, as the ability resolves, you exile the target card and create a copy of it. Third, you decide whether to cast that copy immediately while the ability is still resolving. If the copy is a permanent spell, it will enter the battlefield as a token once it resolves.

Timing and Costs

It is important to remember that you must cast the copy during the resolution of the trigger. You cannot wait until later in the combat phase or your second main phase to cast it. Because you are casting the spell, you must pay all associated costs, including any additional costs or the value of X in the mana cost. If you choose not to cast the copy, it simply ceases to exist as a state-based action.

When to Play Nashi

Nashi is most effective in decks that can consistently put high-impact legendary cards into the graveyard through looting or self-mill. Since he has Menace and Ward {1}, he is difficult to block and slightly harder to remove, making him a reliable way to recur powerful spells every turn he remains on the board.

Interaction examples

Legendary Recursion with Solemn Simulacrum

Solemn Simulacrum

If you have a Solemn Simulacrum in your graveyard, you can target it with Nashi's attack trigger because it is a legendary card. After exiling it and paying four mana to cast the copy, the spell resolves and enters the battlefield as a token. You then get to search for a basic land, just as if you had played the original card from your hand.

Double Mana Ramp

Sakura-Tribe Elder

While Sakura-Tribe Elder is not a Rat, it can be targeted by Nashi if it was granted the 'Legendary' supertype or if you are targeting a different Rat card instead. If you have a Rat in the graveyard, Nashi allows you to cast a token copy of that Rat, providing you with an additional blocker or attacker while you use your Sakura-Tribe Elder to sacrifice for a land.