B · Engine & Sequencing · §11LeBlanc & the Copy Engine
B · Engine & Sequencing · §11
LeBlanc & the Copy Engine
Legend Reflections and Mirror Image are strategically different tools with strict copy rules.
⚠ Prominent rule warning
A Reflection does not retrigger “When you play me” abilities merely because it becomes a copy.
A Reflection is played first and then becomes a copy — it never counts as having been “played as” the copied unit. It does receive printed and otherwise copyable characteristics: Deathknell, attack triggers, static abilities. It does not copy Equipment, damage, temporary modifiers, or separately granted effects.
✕ Harnessed Dragon does not kill a unit.✕ Thousand-Tailed Watcher does not apply its global Might reduction.✕ Ashe does not reveal and banish a hand card.
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Legend Reflection
via LeBlanc, Deceiver
＋ No Energy expenditure
＋ Created directly at the scoring battlefield
＋ Immediately reinforces a Hold or conquest
＋ Converts excess or recoverable cards into board presence
− Requires a Hold or Conquer first
− Requires discarding a card
− Requires the Legend to be ready
− Copies only an eligible unit at that battlefield
− Starts at the battlefield — never sees “when I move” triggers
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Mirror Image
via Spell
＋ Copies without scoring first
＋ Begins ready at the base
＋ Can move — triggers attack and movement abilities
＋ Can copy an opposing unit when relevant
＋ Enables Rift Herald’s movement trigger
− Costs Energy and Power
− Does not solve an empty board
− Poor when available copies are only raw statistics
− The Reflection remains Temporary
From the guide — §11 LeBlanc & the Copy Engine
The Legend creates a ready Reflection after you Conquer or Hold, at the cost of discarding a card and exhausting LeBlanc. The Reflection copies another unit at that battlefield and gains Temporary. Mirror Image instead creates the Reflection ready at the base.
Rules noteA Reflection is played first and then becomes a copy. It does not retroactively become a card that was “played as” the copied unit. It does receive the copied card’s printed or otherwise copyable characteristics, including Deathknell, attack triggers and static abilities — but not Equipment, damage, temporary modifiers or separately granted effects.◆src