Note that you have to play lands in your second main phase for this card
The major characters like the Fellowship of the Ring, their closest allies, and the major villains like Sauron all get multiple mechanically unique cards to represent them during different parts of their long journeys
Marcy: More for the cool art, but FF games are (traditionally) turn based RPGs, and this recreates a battle from FFVI, the game that really put FF on a lot of people's radars
The copies are created on the stack, so they're not "cast" or "activated." Creating the copies won't cause abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell or activates an ability to trigger
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