<p><strong>Yes</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=423831" rel="noreferrer">Metallic Mimic</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>As Metallic Mimic enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.</p>
<p>Metallic Mimic is the chosen type in addition to its other types.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>When you are asked to do something &quot;As X enters the battlefield&quot;, you are doing it immediately before it enters. This does not use the stack; when Metallic Mimic resolves you <strong>choose a type and it enters as that type, triggering any appropriate ETBs</strong>, and no one can do anything in between you choosing the type and Mimic hitting the battlefield.</p>
<p>If it instead read:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>When Metallic Mimic enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Then it would be a triggered ability; Metallic Mimic would enter the battlefield as a &quot;Shapeshifter&quot;, this ability would be put on the stack, and when it resolved you'd get to choose a type (like &quot;Human&quot;) and it would become that type. <a href="http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=409783" rel="noreferrer">Thalia's Lieutenant</a>'s ability would not be triggered.</p>

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2017-02-10T18:37:39.107Z
Interesting, never really appreciated the difference between "When X enters the battlefield..." and "As X enters the battlefield...". Nice addition to the answer.
Nuclear Hoagie
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2017-02-10T19:25:42.113Z
@Matt Thanks! Whenever an MTG question asks "does X happen", and X doesn't happen, I try to include counterexample Y, where it WILL happen, because I find those super helpful.
monoRed
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monoRed
<p>If I have <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bThalia%27s%5d%2b%5bLieutenant%5d">Thalia&#39;s Lieutenant</a> in play and resolve a <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bMetallic%20Mimic%5d">Metallic Mimic</a> choosing "Human" does Thalia's Lieutenant get a +1/+1 counter?</p>

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Is Metallic Mimic the chosen creature type when it enters the battlefield?
OrneryPachyderm
# Is Metallic Mimic the chosen creature type when it enters the battlefield?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-02-10)

If I have [Thalia's Lieutenant](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bThalia%27s%5d%2b%5bLieutenant%5d) in play and resolve a [Metallic Mimic](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bMetallic%20Mimic%5d) choosing "Human" does Thalia's Lieutenant get a +1/+1 counter?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-02-10. Score: 14 | Accepted answer

**Yes**

[Metallic Mimic](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=423831)

> As Metallic Mimic enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
>
> Metallic Mimic is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

When you are asked to do something "As X enters the battlefield", you are doing it immediately before it enters. This does not use the stack; when Metallic Mimic resolves you **choose a type and it enters as that type, triggering any appropriate ETBs**, and no one can do anything in between you choosing the type and Mimic hitting the battlefield.

If it instead read:

> When Metallic Mimic enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Then it would be a triggered ability; Metallic Mimic would enter the battlefield as a "Shapeshifter", this ability would be put on the stack, and when it resolved you'd get to choose a type (like "Human") and it would become that type. [Thalia's Lieutenant](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=409783)'s ability would not be triggered.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: Interesting, never really appreciated the difference between "When X enters the battlefield..." and "As X enters the battlefield...". Nice addition to the answer.  
> **username_1**: @Matt Thanks! Whenever an MTG question asks "does X happen", and X doesn't happen, I try to include counterexample Y, where it WILL happen, because I find those super helpful.  

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