Can Mairsil, using Kaho Minamo Historian's ability, cast cards exiled using Withered Wretch's ability?
Asked by Elessidel 7 years ago
I need help wrapping my head around some of the intricacies of linked abilities. I'd like to use Kaho, Minamo Historian's ability to cast spells with Mairsil. I saw this quote on the Magic judges blog:
"Because they are considered together, each half of a pair of linked abilities generally wont do much of anything by itself. If a card somehow gains only one of the abilities, it will usually be worthless without the other."
Is this one of the cases where it wouldn't be worthless, or if not, what would such a case look like? The release notes for Mairsil include this example:
"If Mairsil gains an activated ability that's normally linked to a non-activated ability of the card it came from, the ability Mairsil has isn't linked to any ability. For example, if Mairsil exiles Prototype Portal, the activated ability creates no tokens at all; it doesn't create Prototype Portal tokens."
If Prototype Portal's ability used the phrase "copy of a card exiled by Prototype Portal" instead of "copy of that card" would it work? Basically, would an unlinked half of a linked ability link itself to a relevant ability on Mairsil?
chosengamer says... #4
Kaho also has rules text that specifically says that the second ability can only cast cards exiled by the first ability.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #3
You can use double square brackets to link cards. It's the easiest way to make sure everyone understands the details of what's going on in your question: Kaho, Minamo Historian, Withered Wretch, Prototype Portal, and Mairsil the Pretender isn't in the database yet so here's a link
No. Rules-wise, the phrasing "copy of a card exiled by Prototype Portal" is functionally identical to its current text. The reason Prototype Portal is written that way is because under normal circumstances there will only be one card imprinted on it. Pairs of linked abilities can only be linked to each other, not to anything else.
August 11, 2017 1:46 p.m. Edited.