Flickerwisp and Conjurer's Closet
Asked by BadumPsh 13 years ago
If I use the closet's ability to flicker Flickerwisp, and choose another creature for its ETB effect, what happens to it? Will it return to play at once, because it's the end of turn? Or will it stay exiled for good?
Thanks in advance!
You left this out, but judging by how you worded your question, I am assuming you are activating Conjurer's Closet during an end step (either your's or your opponent's).
Flickerwisp will be exiled then returned to the battlefield. Then, Flickerwisp's enter the battlefield ability will go on the stack and you choose a target. As it resolves, that permanent is exiled. It will return to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.
Note: Flickerwisp's text has be updated to reflect the Magic 2010 rule changes. It now reads the following:
Flying
When Flickerwisp enters the battlefield, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
May 14, 2012 12:41 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #3
@mafteechr I think (and correct me if I'm wrong) but he was asking if the creature Flickerwisp flickered would trigger the "at the beginning of the next end step" of the turn that he flickered it. Or would it return at the beginning of the next turns end step.
May 14, 2012 12:58 p.m.
Will it return to play at once, because it's the end of turn?
That line made me believe he was activating it during the end step.
May 14, 2012 2:46 p.m.
AradonTemplar says... #5
Conjurer's Closet has a triggered ability that triggers at the beginning of the end step. There is no activated ability involved here.
Flickerwisp leaves play during the end step, then returns to play. When it returns, it exiles another permanent. That permanent is returned to play at the beginning of the next end step, which will occur in the next turn rather than this turn (since the beginning has already passed).
AradonTemplar says... Accepted answer #1
Flickerwisp's oracle text says to return the creature at the beginning of the next end step. Since the beginning of the end step has already passed when Flickerwisp returns from his trip to the closet, the creature that Flickerwisp exiles stays removed from the game until the beginning of the NEXT end step. This means that at the end of your opponent's next turn, the flickered creature will return to play.
In this manner you can prevent an opponent's creature from being in play during their turn, or remove a creature from your side of the board during their turn to avoid Day of Judgment sort of plays. The creature will return, though, just in the following turn rather than immediately or never.
May 14, 2012 12:41 p.m.