Permanents changing control
Asked by UmbrotheUmbreon 8 years ago
I got into a bit of an argument with some people at my card store about summoning sickness and changing control of a permanent.
The guy used Memnarch to gain control of my Hero of Bladehold and him and another were saying that as long as it's been one full rotation that the creature will never get summoning sickness again until it leaves the battlefield. I argued that it doesn't matter how long it's been out, if you move a card from one person's field to another, it regains summoning sickness, but decided to let it go on the grounds of a casual game I was gonna lose anyway.
The question is this. Who is right, and may I please have comprehensive rules/gatherer rules supporting the answer?
UmbrotheUmbreon says... #2
Thanks Epochalyptik! I knew I was right, but luckily it didn't matter since he stole it while it was tapped during his turn.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
There's only one battlefield. You don't move something from one battlefield to another; the object just changes control.
Summoning sickness applies to a creature whose current controller has not controlled it continuously since the beginning of his or her last turn.
302.6. A creature's activated ability with the tap symbol or the untap symbol in its activation cost can't be activated unless the creature has been under its controller's control continuously since his or her most recent turn began. A creature can't attack unless it has been under its controller's control continuously since his or her most recent turn began. This rule is informally called the "summoning sickness" rule.
June 4, 2015 10:07 p.m.