Inverter of Truth
Asked by Wabbbit 8 years ago
Someone called me out on something about this card, and it theft me thoroughly confused. Let's say I have one card in my graveyard. I cast Inverter of Truth, which exiles my library, putting it in the exile zone. I then shuffle my graveyard INTO my library. So would it not go back to my library, where I can draw it? It wouldn't get shuffled into my library that's now in exile, would it? So in theory I can have one card in my graveyard, zero in my library, an Inverter of Truth and a Eldrazi Displacer on the field. I can bounce the Inverter to exile my library (that has zero cards in it) and shuffle my one card in my graveyard back into my library. Is this not how it works? Am I just being an idiot and misreading the card? Help please!
Raging_Squiggle says... Accepted answer #2
Cards do everything from the top down, meaning in this case you exile your library first, and then shuffle your graveyard into your now empty library. So yes, you could flicker Inverter of Truth to keep getting that one card back into your library assuming you have it in your graveyard prior to flickering the Inverter.
January 8, 2016 10:56 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
The key thing here is that when an effect tells you to do something to a zone ("discard your hand", "exile your library", "shuffle your graveyard into your library", etc.) it means to do that thing to all the cards in the specified zone. The zone itself doesn't actually move or change. In your example, all the cards in your library zone move to the exile zone, then all the cards in your graveyard zone move to your library zone. The effects that do these things are written the way they are to save text-box space and improve readability.
Wabbbit says... #1
Uh, that's supposed to be "left", not "theft". Oh Well, you get the picture.
January 8, 2016 10:48 p.m.