EDH Ghostly Flicker control
Asked by MadScientist 6 years ago
So there is a lot of confusion around the Ghostly Flicker with an opponents commander under your control.
Here is the scenario,
In my Yasova Dragonclaw deck I take control of my opponents commander and then cast Ghostly Flicker targeting the opponents commander.
Ghostly flicker exiles creature and then returns it to the battlefield under my control.
Commander rules state that when "your" commander changes zones you can choose to have it enter the command zone.
So when ghostly flicker resolves where does my opponents commander end up? In their command Zone or on the battlefield under my control.
Thanks to anyone that can specifically clear this up for me.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #2
It will end up on the battlefield under your control regardless of what your opponent chooses to do.
An effect that moves a card from one zone to another is always able to find it in the first public zone it moves to, even if that wasn't the zone it was originally expected to move to. The effect will only lose track of the card if some other effect moves it again. Because the command zone is a public zone and Ghostly Flicker doesn't specifically say to return "the exiled cards" or something similar, it doesn't matter whether or not the cards actually went to exile for the first zone change. They will be returned to the battlefield.
Magnivore says... #1
If your opponent(s) choose not to have it return to the command zone upon it flickering then it will end up under your control, which you will not lose control of at the end of the turn.
February 26, 2018 6:32 a.m.