Memnarch and Unquestioned Authority

Asked by Vyzyx 8 years ago

So, while countering a creature specifically in any deck isn't the greatest idea (because the deck may not contain the creature), adding a card for more than one purpose would be.I'm pretty sure my creature would be protected because at most, the player can only gain control of the enchantment, but:

If I enchant any creature with Unquestioned Authority, the player can still gain control of Unquestioned Authority by using Memnarch. However, Unquestioned Authority would just be theirs to own, they cannot designate a new target for it, right? It boils down to using Unquestioned Authority to stop Memnarch from gaining control of the creature it's enchanting. Would that work?

Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1

Ownership of a card never changes. A card's owner is the player who began the game with that card in his or her deck (or sideboard, for wish cards).

When you take control of something using Memnarch's second ability, you're doing just that—taking control. Control of an object can change; ownership cannot.

Now, Unquestioned Authority has no targets when its on the battlefield. Auras only target as spells. If an Aura enters the battlefield but wasn't cast as a spell, then its controller chooses an object that it could legally enchant and the Aura enters attached to that object.

Gaining control of an Aura (or any other permanent) does not cause it to change zones, so you won't be able to reattach it. It will remain attached to the object it's currently enchanting.

tl;dr: The enchanted creature still has protection from creatures.

December 12, 2015 4:17 p.m.