Instant Exile VS Enchantment Creature?
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Posted on Sept. 29, 2014, 8:07 p.m. by ME4Twaffle
This should be a quick and easy question.
My friend cast an enchantment creature that made me exile the top two cards of my deck upon entering the battlefield. I used Erase, an instant that exiles a target enchantment, and declared target as his enchantment creature. Do I still exile two cards from my deck, or is that nullified by my instant?
Thanks!
Epochalyptik says... #3
Rules questions belong in the Q&A, which is linked in the header bar. I can't move this to the Q&A, so I'm moving it to BE.
Always link all cards in your question.
Erase
Thassa's Devourer
As Goody said, once an ability is on the stack, it exists independently of its source. Removing the source won't counter the ability.
September 29, 2014 8:53 p.m.
ME4Twaffle says... #4
Sorry about misplacing my post! I scanned up and don't my available forum options and didn't see one more appropriate, so that's my bad!
Thank you very much for the assistance, though! :)
Goody says... #2
Make sure to post future rules questions in the MTG Q&A section (link is at the top of the page, right next to Forums).
You still exile the cards. The exile effect is a triggered ability, triggered by the creature entering the battlefield. Once the creature enters the battlefield, the triggered ability goes on the stack. You respond with Erase which goes on top of the stack. Erase resolves, exiling the enchantment creature, but the triggered ability remains on the stack even if its source no longer exists. You then exile the top two cards from your deck.
If you had been able to counter the creature with something like Cancel , however, the creature would have never entered the battlefield and it would have never triggered the ability.
September 29, 2014 8:18 p.m.