Dr. Who blink saga against tokens and commanders
Asked by shadow63 8 months ago
There's a new Saha called Blink and it shuffles stuff into a players deck the player who shuffled the card into the deck investigates. Now what happens when you target a token or a commander that goes back into the command zone? Does the player still get to investigate?
Gidgetimer says... #2
The chapters on Blink are set up weirdly. Chapter 1 and 3 are the ones that target. Not 1 and 2. But Chaospyke is correct other than that.
October 16, 2023 8:03 p.m.
Chaospyke can you explain why it works that way and other times effects like this don't work?
October 17, 2023 8:46 a.m.
I misread Blink, so its chapters 1 & 3, not 1 & 2.
shadow63 You would have to give me an example of when its not working, as there are too many different scenarios. The general rule is that as long as a spell or ability has at least one legal target when it tries to resolve, you do everything it says to do, but then there are even exceptions to that. You have to go on a case by case basis.
October 17, 2023 3:46 p.m.
Ok I should have worded that better. But basically what I am trying to ask is. There are certain cards that won't do everything the card says if a commander is targeted and sent back to the command zone instead of being sent to exile for example or a token is targeted that no longer exists once it leaves the board
October 17, 2023 5:40 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #6
A specific example of an interaction you are thinking of would be helpful. For the most part everything functions as explained above. Reasoning behind exceptions are usually pretty specific and are hard to generalize.
October 17, 2023 8:40 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #7
As a spell or ability resolves, you follow all the instructions in the order given and skip over the ones that are either impossible or are specifically written to be dependent on something that didn't happen. Or, if the spell/ability had targets and all of its targets are illegal as it would start to resolve then instead it doesn't resolve and you remove it from the stack entirely.
In the examples given here with Blink, a token ceasing to exist after being shuffled or a commander going to the command zone instead of being shuffled don't cause any issues with the ability resolving or the instruction to investigate.
Chaospyke says... Accepted answer #1
As long as the target of Chapters 1 & 2 are legal when the ability resolves, you will perform the entire ability. If you target a commander, as a replacement effect, the commander may be put into the commandzone. The commander's owner will still shuffle their library and investigate. If you target a token, the token will be shuffled into the library then cease to exist once state-based actions are checked.
October 15, 2023 2:07 p.m.