Okay, so today I had a weird interaction. My opponent played a temporary lockdown. I exiled it later with my Kaya, Intangible Slayer.

This produces a 1/1 spirit token, that should theoretically exile itself. This did however not happen in Arena. Why is that?

Is it a bug or is there a rule that I don’t know?

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Mana cost is a copiable attribute, so even though the copy is a 1/1 spirit token, it has a mana value above 2.

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It copies the mana value… 🤦

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It only exiles mana value two or less. Temporary lockdown is mana value 3.

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To add to this, tokens have no mana cost (mana value 0) unless they are copies, in which case they have the mana cost of whatever they are copying. (There are a few exceptions, like embalm/eternalize, but they’re always explicitly called out)

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the copy has the same mana value as the original enchantment, so it would be safe from it’s own effect

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