Day of the Dragons gimmicks

Asked by chosenone124 5 years ago

Just checking some gimmick interactions with Day of the Dragons

  1. If I have Opalescence out and I cast Day of the Dragons, will the game enter an infinite loop as the Day repeatedly exiles and returns itself?

  2. If I have Arcane Adaptation out on Homarids, will I have to sacrifice the tokens?

  3. If Day of the Dragons is destroyed in response to the ETB trigger, will my creatures be exiled permanently?

  4. If the ETB is copied by Strionic Resonator, does anything change about either of Day of the Dragon's return or exile abilities?

Kogarashi says... Accepted answer #1

  1. Yes. Day of the Dragons will enter the battlefield, triggering its first ability, and then Opalescence will apply turning it into a creature. Day's first ability then goes on the stack and resolves, resulting in all creatures you control being exiled and replaced by dragon tokens...including Day itself. This triggers its second ability, which when it resolves destroys your tokens and returns all your creatures and Day to the battlefield, at which point Day's first ability triggers again. Unless something has removed Opalescence in the interim, Day will still be a creature and get exiled again, and you have yourself a loop.

  2. Arcane Adaptation says "in addition to their other types." This means your dragon tokens will be 5/5 red flying Dragon Homarid tokens. They're still dragons, so you will still have to destroy them when Day of the Dragons leaves the battlefield.

  3. Day of the Dragons functions similarly to Oblivion Ring, due to its ETB and LTB effects being two separate triggers. When you cast Day, it enters the battlefield, then its first ability goes on the stack. If someone uses Naturalize to destroy it while the first ability is on the stack, it leaves the battlefield, triggering its second ability and putting that on the stack above the first. The second ability resolves first, destroying any dragons you have and returning all your creatures exiled with Day, which will be zero because the first ability hasn't resolved yet. Then the first ability resolves, exiling all your creatures and replacing them with dragon tokens. Because Day is gone, you can't get your exiled creatures back without something else like Riftsweeper.

  4. If you copy the ETB trigger, the copy will resolve first, exiling your creatures and replacing them with dragon tokens. Then the original will resolve, exiling your dragon tokens you just got and replacing them with dragon tokens. Nothing's changed about the return ability, so if Day of the Dragons is later removed, you will destroy whatever dragons you control, then return the creatures exiled with the copy of the ETB trigger.

October 31, 2018 8:36 a.m.

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