Do tokens go to the graveyard?
Asked by Genderfluidia 3 years ago
So I have a Krenko, Mob Boss deck, so naturally I have a lot of goblin tokens. What I want to know is, if I have Boggart Shenanigans in play, and someone Wrath of God's, does Shenanigans go off?
Kequing420 is right, I just wanted to add that "cease to exist afterward" means they disappear before anything could target them or bring them back. They're only in the graveyard long enough for something like Boggart Shenanigans to trigger—by the time the trigger actually resolves, they'll be long gone.
This is because of "state-based actions" (SBAs), which is where the game cleans up anything that should be somewhere else. SBAs are checked after most game events (spells/abilities resolving, combat damage, etc). If you kill a 2/2 creature with Clan Defiance on X = 3, for example, it gets 3 damage marked on it but stays where it is while Defiance deals damage to the player or planeswalker. As soon as Defiance finishes resolving, the game checks state-based actions and finds that the creature has lethal damage, so it's put into the graveyard.
Disappearing tokens work the same way. If you cast Wrath of God they're destroyed (which does put them into the graveyard, triggering Boggart Shenanigans); when the Wrath has finished resolving, state-based actions are checked. The game finds tokens in a place they shouldn't exist (the graveyard) and they stop existing.
Keqing420 says... Accepted answer #1
if someone casts a board wipe, Boggart Shenanigans will still trigger off the tokens. tokens do go to the grave, but then just cease to exist afterward.
January 8, 2021 12:12 a.m.