Gift of immortality + scavenging ooze
Asked by Shape_Shifter 6 years ago
Hello everyone.
A while ago i had a discussion in the following situation.
My opponent had a creature enchanted with Gift of Immortality.I had a Scavenging Ooze on the battlefield and enough mana to trigger its ability.
The moment i killed my opponents creature, what happens?
Does the creature hit the graveyard with the enchantments effect on the stack waiting to return it? (in this case i should be able to exile it with ooze right?)
Does the creature never actually go to the graveyard?
Thanks in advance!
hyperlocke says... #2
"dies" is a MTG short form for "is put into its owner's graveyard from the battlefield".
When this happens to the enchanted creature, Gift of Immortality's ability is put onto the stack. At this time, the creature is in the graveyard. You can exile it before the ability resolves.
If you do, the resolving ability will look for the creature card in the graveyard and won't find it, so it does nothing.
June 22, 2017 1:21 p.m.
Shape_Shifter says... #3
Thanks for the answers :)
This is how i thought it worked but the 'dies' instead of 'put into the graveyard' caught me off guard.My opponent claimed that meant that Gift of Immortality snatches the creature 'on the way' to the graveyard and said it was never in the graveyard that way.
Anyways, now i know
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
Scavenging Ooze does not have a triggered ability; it has an activated ability. Activated abilities are manually activated; triggered abilities trigger automatically when their conditions are met.
Note that Gift of Immortality's ability triggers when the enchanted creature dies. "Dies" means "is put into a graveyard from the battlefield." In order for the ability to trigger, the enchanted creature has to actually hit the yard.
When that happens, the ability triggers and is put onto the stack. You can then respond to the ability, while the creature is still in your opponent's graveyard. You'll be able to exile it.
June 22, 2017 1:17 p.m.