Does Dreadhorde Arcanist + Feather, the Redeemed just put the card back in your hand?
Asked by stensiagamekeeper 4 years ago
If you attack with Dreadhorde Arcanist with Feather, the Redeemed out does the card you cast go to exile or can you choose to put it into your hand?
rolfMTG is correct. Feather, the Redeemed doesn't care where you cast the spell from, only that you cast it (if using an ability to cast it, the ability must say "cast" or "play," not just "put it on the stack").
When you attack with Dreadhorde Arcanist , you trigger its ability, which upon resolution allows you to cast an instant or sorcery with CMC restrictions from your graveyard. Then it wants to exile the card instead of putting it back in your graveyard.
With Feather, the Redeemed on the battlefield, as long as the spell you chose to cast targets a creature you control, then when the spell would be put into your graveyard, you have two replacement effects trying to exile it instead: Arcanist's and Feather's. Choose to apply Feather's, and the card will be exiled (satisfying Arcanist's replacement effect) and a delayed triggered ability will wait for the beginning of the next end step and then return the spell to your hand unless something else prevents that from happening.
So TLDR, as already said, you can get the card back to your hand if you want.
You are, of course, always welcome to apply Arcanist's replacement effect first, in which case Feather's replacement effect won't apply and you won't get the spell back. So choose wisely.
rolfMTG says... Accepted answer #1
I'm pretty sure you need to apply Feather's replacement effect first, because it changes the effect on resolution instead of on entering the graveyard. Since resolution occurs first, Feather will exile the card and return it at EoT, and the Arcanist's replacement effect will not even be applied.
Tldr: You return it to your hand at end of turn.
April 24, 2019 9:43 a.m.