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This is noticeable if you run Verdant Force with Slimefoot: once you have them both in play, Verdant Force will create a Slimefoot reinforcement every turn, but it will not give itself +1/+1 because it's not producing Saprolings any more. However, if you've already got the leader in play, the tokens don't come into play and then get converted to the leader reinforcements, they come into play as leader reinforcements. *this is a minor, nitpicky point: if you create a stack of tokens, then cast a leader of that type of token, those tokens get instantly converted into reinforcements of the leader. Create a thopter token, by any means whatsoever, and you'll get a reinforcement of him, instead of the thopter token.
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There are, as it turns out, no cards with the "artifact" subtype that *also* create Thopter Tokens, so he's really very simple: cast an artifact (per definition of "cast", as you note), get a reinforcement of him and also get the artifact you cast. Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.
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Right, the question of "casting" is irrelevant: the reinforcements he's getting from TSN, or Saheeli, or wherever else, have nothing to do with his printed ability, they're because he has "Leader" and that's how "Leader" works: if you would get a token of that type, you get a reinforcement of the Leader instead* of the token. Set: Treasure Chest Mana Cost: Card Type: Enchantment Description: At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control an artifact, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. "Casting" in paper mtg only triggers when it is cast from your hand.
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