banishing light and other etb exile effects
Asked by Enditoren 9 years ago
If my oponent casts a Banishing Light and as the trigger resolves and he choses a target for the exile effect, but i destroy the banishing light before the trigger resolves, does the chosen card gets exiled for a second and then returning?
FancyTuesday says... Accepted answer #2
From Gatherer:
"If Banishing Light leaves the battlefield before its enters-the-battlefield ability resolves, the target nonland permanent wont be exiled."
July 27, 2014 8:12 p.m.
No. The targeted permanent would never leave the battlefield.
Note that this is very different if the card being used is Oblivion Ring , in which case not only would the permanent get exield, but it would also never come back. That is why newer cards like Banishing Light use this new template.
Also, simple questions like this can often be answered by a card's Gatherer rulings:
4/26/2014: If Banishing Light leaves the battlefield before its enters-the-battlefield ability resolves, the target nonland permanent wont be exiled.
July 27, 2014 8:12 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
Note that the target is chosen as the triggered ability is put onto the stack, not as it resolves.
Devonin says... #1
With the new way they write the text, it won't even go anywhere, because the duration of the exile effect is ended as soon as the card leaves the battlefield, which is before the ability resolves.
Some of the older cards, where the leaving play ability is also a triggered ability, like Oblivion Ring would result in the card being exiled permanently.
July 27, 2014 8:11 p.m.