Shady Spectacles

Shady Spectacles is an epic-rarity gear card from Riftbound's Vendetta expansion. This Gear costs 4 Energy and attaches to a unit to modify its play. Aligned with the Order domain. It carries the Equipment tag. The card uses the Equip keyword.

4 Energy | Gear | Order | epic | Vendetta

Rules Text

[Equip] 1 Energy Order Rune (1 Energy Order Rune: Attach this to a unit you control.) As this is attached to a unit, choose another friendly unit. The equipped unit becomes a copy of that unit for as long as this is attached to it.

Keywords

Domain: Order

Meta Statistics

Inclusion Rate: 0.2% | Win Rate: N/A

Related FAQ (3)

What happens if I choose to copy an empowered unit when I equip an unempowered unit with Shady Spectacles?

The equipped unit remains unempowered. Copy effects copy printed (or already-copied) traits; empowered is a status — a temporary modification — and isn't copyable. Temporary modifications already on the equipped unit (Might changes, buffs, statuses, attacker/defender, etc.) also remain in place.

What happens when Akshan, Mischievous steals an equipped Shady Spectacles? Does copying Aphelios trigger him twice?

The previously equipped unit loses its copy effect, and Akshan becomes a copy of a friendly unit of his controller's choice. As of the Vendetta rules update, effects like Shady Spectacles and Svellsongur replace the attach event with attach-then-copy as separate, sequential events. By the time the copy applies, the attach event has already completed, so a copied trigger like Aphelios's can't see it. This supersedes the Spiritforged FAQ answer — attaching Svellsongur to Aphelios no longer triggers him twice.

If I detach and reattach Shady Spectacles to the same unit copying the same card, can I use the copied activated ability again?

Yes. Each instance of a copied ability is a different ability. The game object stays the same, so temporary modifications persist, but the copied rules text is an entirely new instance — the same way Svellsongur's copied ability is refreshed by detaching and reattaching it.

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