AEtherling Manipulation
Asked by FALLEN-X-ANGEL 9 years ago
Say my AEtherling is just chilling there in my graveyard, minding it's own business. Is it legal for me to manipulate his first ability to exile him and then bring him back to the battlefield on the next end step that the game comes too?
FALLEN-X-ANGEL says... #2
I respectfully disagree. Because i've been curious about this last night. and i've been looking at some interactions, yet i am unsure.
602.1. Activated abilities have a cost and an effect. They are written as [Cost]: [Effect.] [Activation instructions (if any).]
602.1b Some text after the colon of an activated ability states instructions that must be followed while activating that ability. Such text may state which players can activate that ability, may restrict when a player can activate the ability, or may define some aspect of the activation cost. This text is not part of the abilitys effect. It functions at all times. If an activated ability has any activation instructions, they appear last, after the abilitys effect.
Here it states that it functions at all times and it doesn't state if it has to be in the graveyard and/or battlefield.
July 15, 2014 3:48 p.m.
Rasta_Viking29 says... #3
You can't activate an ability of a card in the graveyard unless it specifically says so.
"Here it states that it functions at all times and it doesn't state if it has to be in the graveyard and/or battlefield."
In the game of Magic if it doesn't specifically state you can do something then you can't do it.
July 15, 2014 3:54 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #5
In terms of rules:
112.6. Abilities of an instant or sorcery spell usually function only while that object is on the stack. Abilities of all other objects usually function only while that object is on the battlefield. The exceptions are as follows:
A list of 13 different exceptions follow, none of which apply to AEtherling . See this section in the CR for more details.
Sam_I_am says... Accepted answer #1
no. You can only activate it when it's on the battlefield.
AEtherling doesn't have any activated abilities that you can activate from the graveyard.
July 15, 2014 3:32 p.m.