Offspring not working properly for some creatures
When I use the Cottontail Caretaker to give offspring to Regal Bunnicorn, the copy does not have the special ability at all. I get the text says it enters as a 1/1 copy of the creature, but it seems very odd to me that the explanatory text in the middle of the card is invalidated.
Maybe this is by intent and I'm wrong.
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Rezzahan#77802 commented
The offspring is working. The issue is, that the Bunnicorn has a characteristic-defining ability (CDA) for a characteristic that is excempt from the copy effect and replaced with some specific value. Thus the CDA is not copied.
707.9d When applying a copy effect that doesn’t copy a certain characteristic, retains one or more
original values for a certain characteristic, or provides a specific set of values for a certain
characteristic, any characteristic-defining ability (see rule 604.3) of the object being copied that
defines that characteristic is not copied.[...]