If Mairsil dies before her ETB effect resolves..
Asked by MizzMizz 5 years ago
If Mairsil, the Pretender gets hit with a Murder when she enters the battlefield, does she still cage something? Or does that trigger have nothing to attach to anymore?
If Mairsil, the Pretender gets hit with a Murder when she enters the battlefield, does she still cage something? Or does that trigger have nothing to attach to anymore?
ClockworkSwordfish says... Accepted answer #1
Mairsil's ability goes on the stack as soon as he comes into play, so there's no way to target him with Murder without the trigger being set to occur. After Mairsil dies, since the ability doesn't actually rely on him being in play (it's not putting an aura on him or anything) then Mairsil's caster may still exile a card with a cage counter.
The next time Mairsil is played, of course (assuming he's put back into the command zone) he will still being able to take the activated abilities of the exiled card, since he's just looking for any exiled card with a cage counter on it. The fact that this Mairsil didn't exile it is irrelevant.
April 11, 2019 6:10 p.m.