Does Faith's Reward return creatures to the battlefield that were put into your graveyard this?
Asked by The_Epic_Dog 6 years ago
Does Faith's Reward return creatures to the battlefield that were put into your graveyard this? If so, do you create a copy of the card that left your graveyard, or do you take it out of whatever zone it was in?
The thing that made me think of this was God-Pharaoh's Gift. So someone plays a board wipe on your first main phase that only destroys creatures. Then, at the beginning of combat, you are gifted a copy of one of your dead creatures. you then cast Faith's Reward returning all of your creatures that were boardwiped to the battlefield, but does that include the card exiled with God-Pharaoh's Gift?
Faith's Reward returns all the permanents that were put into your graveyard from the battlefield in the turn you cast it. This includes creatures, because creature is a type of card that counts as a permanent. The other types that are permanents are artifacts, enchantments, planeswalkers, and lands.
Yes, it takes the physical card out of your graveyard, and puts it back on the battlefield.
No, it won't return a card that you have exiled with God-Pharaoh's Gift because that card is now in exile. The exile zone is not your graveyard. Faith's Reward only returns cards from the graveyard. The graveyard is its own zone.
Remember that God-Pharaoh's Gift's ability is optional. You can choose to not exile anything and get all your creatures back when you cast Faith's Reward later, or you can get a token copy of one of the creatures and not get back the physical card (Maybe because you want it to have haste so you can attack with it. The creatures returned by Faith's Reward will not have haste and can't attack that turn.) You can also exile a different creature card in your graveyard that wasn't put there this turn. Go nuts.
Caerwyn says... Accepted answer #1
No. The rules text for Faith's Reward states as follows:
Return to the battlefield all permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn. (emphasis added)
Only cards that are currently in your graveyard can be returned. Exile and the graveyard are different zones--a card in one zone cannot by definition, be in another (Rule 400.1) (with the exception of Masterful Ninja, whose rules text allows it to exist both in one's hand and on the battlefield).
February 6, 2018 11:25 p.m. Edited.