Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #2
A token is not a card, and it can never be a card. A token can be a representation of a copy of a card and it may sometimes be represented by a card of some kind, but it is not itself a card.
November 29, 2012 12:53 a.m.
Not that you'd find any tokens using Slaughter Games anyway, since tokens don't exist outside of the battlefield.
November 29, 2012 4:48 a.m.
You're better of with Detention Sphere or Sever the Bloodline to mass remove tokens, but you'd have to wait till they're in play of course.
November 29, 2012 6:44 a.m.
However, Slaughter Games could remove things like Lingering Souls or Gather the Townsfolk from some one's deck, and prevent them from making the tokens.
November 29, 2012 10:58 a.m.
Thanks a lot, that's what i thought.
A friend tried to remove my 8/8 elemental tokens with slaughter games and i wasn't sure if he could.
We thought he could remove the 2 elementals i had on the battlefield but i could keep summoning them.
In the end he changed targets to another card.
Again, thanks a lot.
November 29, 2012 3:03 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #7
Slaughter Games is not targeted, but I assume you mean he just chose another card. In that case, what you did was correct. There are two things that prevent him from affecting the tokens with Slaughter Games :
1) Slaughter Games specifies that you must name a nonland card. Tokens' names, unless specified by the effect that created them, are the same as their creature types. "Elemental" is not a card name, so it can't be chosen.
2) Slaughter Games only affects cards (nontokens). Therefore, it will not do anything to tokens even if those tokens somehow had the same name as a card (either because they were copied or the effect that created them gave them that name).
November 29, 2012 3:30 p.m.
Slaughter Games doesn't exile from the battlefield, either. So if he could name Elemental, the ones you had on the battlefield wouldn't be affected, anyway.
November 29, 2012 8:19 p.m.
Thanks a lot!
@KevinLS You are right, i'm not sure how we've been playing it, i think when reading it we just assumed it exiled from the battlefield too.
CallMeCrazy says... #1
no
November 29, 2012 12:47 a.m.