Exile Legality
Asked by Riveyn 4 years ago
If I used a card like Rescue to return my commander to my hand, then use Semblance Anvil to exile the commander from my hand, would I be able to place my commander back in the command zone and still be able to utilize the effects of Semblance Anvil? Does exiling the commander still count as satisfying the requirements of the spell if I can put it back in play?
As griffstick stated, you can imagine "exile" as a state that card can be in, same is true for command zone. In this case, you try to exile commander with Semblance Anvil and it goes on the stack. When it comes on stack you trigger the commander position change and then you can choose whether to exile it or to send it to the command zone. If you choose command zone then you really didn't fulfill the requirements of Semblance Anvil so it won't work, more clearly you didn't exile anything with Semblance Anvil so when you would invoke the Semblance Anvils ability you would not have a target... Hope that fully clears your mind.
February 13, 2020 3:50 p.m.
Thanks for the help. Sometimes trying to make sense of the text gets everything twisted in my head to the point of "Do I even understand English?"
February 13, 2020 4:06 p.m.
As mentioned, it doesn't work specifically because the Imprint mechanic refers to "the exiled card." If you use the Commander replacement effect (not trigger) to instead move your Commander to the command zone, it's not exiled by the Semblance Anvil after all and Imprint has nothing to refer to.
The same would happen if you were to use, say, a Riftsweeper to recover a card exiled with Imprint. The Imprint ability would no longer function for lack of an exiled card to refer to.
February 13, 2020 5:49 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #5
Riveyn: Since it's clear you got a satisfactory answer to your question, I marked one of them as the "Accepted answer" so that this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. Please remember to take care of this yourself in the future.
griffstick says... Accepted answer #1
I believe if you put your cmdr into your hand with Rescue, you could choose to instead put it into the command zone. . The same is true for Semblance Anvil. However if you let your commander go to the command zone Semblance Anvil will have nothing imprinted. The card must be exiled. As the imprint mechanic states.
Also if you were to imprint your commander and let it go to exile your commander will remain in exile indefinitely
February 13, 2020 2:02 p.m. Edited.