What counts as a card exiled with Rona, Disciple of Gix?

Asked by RaccoonGremlin 5 years ago

What exactly happens if another effect gives Rona an Exile ability?

The only ways I found to make this work in Standard are some extremley wacky combos:

Lazav, the Multifarious is on the Battlefield Deadeye Tracker and Rona in the Graveyard

First you activate Lazav's ability and turn it into the Tracker. Then you exile two cards from your opponents graveyard. Then you activate Lazav's ability again and make him become Rona.

Can I cast the cards exiled with the Deadeye Tracker ability?

Another way to set this up would be to use Metamorphic Alteration on the Deadeye Tracker, permanentley turning him into Rona.

Or instead of Deadeye Tracker you could use Trapjaw Tyrant.

Now all those combos do involve some shapeshifting.

Would the answer be any different if there existed an enchantment that says: "Enchanted creature gains: {X}: exile target permanent"

Thanks in Advance

Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1

Please use double-square brackets around a card's name to create a reference link. It's the easiest way to make sure everyone understands what's going on with your question, and is especially important for complicated questions: Rona, Disciple of Gix, Lazav, the Multifarious, Deadeye Tracker, Metamorphic Alteration, Trapjaw Tyrant

You'll only be able to cast cards exiled with Rona's printed abilities, not any other abilities.

When the printed text of a card has one or more abilities that exile things, and another ability that references "cards exiled by (this)", then those abilities are "linked" and the "cards exiled by (this)" ability only refers to cards in exile that were put there by those specific exiling abilities. Adding more abilities won't change this relationship. There's currently no way in the game to create new links between abilities that weren't already linked.

January 8, 2019 3:43 p.m. Edited.