Any non-copy effects that applied to the first target creature before it becomes a copy of another creature will continue to apply once it becomes a copy
Such a perfect fit with removal, edicts, and any combat your opponents engage in
A patent was granted to Wizards of the Coast in 1997 for "a novel method of game play and game components that in one embodiment are in the form of trading cards" that includes claims covering games whose rules include many of Magic' s elements in combination, including concepts such as changing orientation of a game component to indicate use (referred to in the rules of Magic and later of Garfield's games such as Vampire: The Eternal Struggle as "tapping") and constructing a deck by selecting cards from a larger pool
Graveyard Manipulation Green shares a bit of this glory: theres a pervasive theme in green of both exiling and returning cards to the hand from there
The decks incredibly consistent, with playsets of Ancient Stirrings, Chromatic Star, and Chromatic Sphere drawing bundles of cards and mitigating the restrictions of colorless mana while land tutors like Expedition Map find missing pieces
This comes in spite of the fact that there are 118 non-foil, near-mint listings still available for MTG Foundations copies