Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward leaves the battlefield before his ability resolves.

Asked by Aspitxon 1 year ago

So, let's say you have Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward and any other creature on the battlefield, for example a Mulldrifter. Then you cast a Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip copying Abdel. When it EtB the legend rule forces you to sacrifice one of them and the new Abdel's (Glaapool mimic's) ability goes to the stack. Let's say you sacrifice the Glasspool mimic (that was copying Abdel). Then with the ability on the stack you target the Mulldrifter. How would the ability resolve? Does it flicker the Mulldrifter and you get to draw cards or does nothing happen?

Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1

Nothing happens. For abilities like this ("exile [something] until [event happens]"), if the event that would end the duration of the exile happens before the object actually moves to exile, then it doesn't move.

610.3. Some one-shot effects cause an object to change zones “until” a specified event occurs. A second one-shot effect is created immediately after the specified event. This second one-shot effect returns the object to its previous zone.

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610.3b If a resolving triggered ability creates the initial one-shot effect that causes the object to change zones, and the specified event has already occurred before that one-shot effect would occur but after that ability triggered, the object doesn’t move.

June 27, 2022 8:59 a.m.