Can Emrakul give you infinite turns?
Asked by cak01vej 9 years ago
Would the combo [Emrakul, the Aeons Torn+Skybind+Flickering Ward]] give infinite turns?
A friend of mine thought up this scenario:
Skybind is on the battlefield, then you play Emrakul, the Aeons Torn (normally this just gives an extra turn). Then you play Flickering Ward on some other creature, which will trigger Skybind to excile Emrakul, and return it on your extra turn, which will give a new turn.
Then you pay 1W to get Ward back to your hand, and play it again, triggering Skybind... and so on...
Raging_Squiggle says... #2
No, it will not. If you read Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, you'll notice it must be cast to activate the ability, not merely enter the battlefield. If you want infinite turns, you can use something like Erratic Portal to bounce it to your hand to recast on the extra turn, triggering Another extra turn and so on.
September 15, 2015 7:22 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #3
@Raging_Squiggle: you can't activate any of Emrakul, the Aeons Torn's abilities. Remember, triggered abilities trigger; activated abilities are activated.
September 16, 2015 8:53 a.m.
Raging_Squiggle says... #4
You understood what I meant though. Simple mixing of words. My bad.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
No, this doesn't work.
"Cast" means a very specific thing. It means to take the card from your hand, put it onto the stack as a spell, and pay its mana cost. There are certain effects that specifically let you cast a card from another zone, or let you pay a cost other than the normal mana cost, but 99.9% of the time that first definition is what "cast" amounts to.
Skybind just makes a creature go to the exile zone and then return to the battlefield. This isn't casting a spell, so Emrakul's "when you cast" ability doesn't trigger.
September 15, 2015 7:20 p.m.