How does Anikthea interact with Lightform?
Asked by OxygenDestroyer65 2 years ago
What happens when Anikthea, Hand of Erebos ETBs or attacks and I bring Lightform back as a token? Does Lightform stop being a 3/3 zombie and completely change into an Aura when it etbs? Or is it somehow both? Kind of a strange interaction I'm not clear on.
A slight correction: Becoming an aura will remove any enchantment types (such as saga or shrine), but will still leave creature types (like sliver or drake), so your token will be an Enchantment Creature - Aura Zombie when it dies.
405: [...] Similarly, when an effect sets one or more of an object's subtypes, the new subtype(s) replaces any existing subtypes from the appropriate set (creature types, land types, artifact types, enchantment types, planeswalker types, or spell types) [...]
January 26, 2024 10:51 a.m.
Sorry, that was 405.1a, and I don't think I can edit it.
January 26, 2024 10:54 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #4
Thanks, I forgot there was no crossover interference between type sets for subtype setting.
January 26, 2024 11:01 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #5
OxygenDestroyer65: Answers to your question have been up for a while. Since there don't seem to be any more follow-ups or corrections that need to be made, I marked one of them as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future you can take care of this yourself using the "Mark as Answer" button on the response that you feel is the most helpful answer to your question.
I try to avoid selecting my own responses when I do this, but in this case it was the most complete answer to the original question.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
Something strange does happen and you won't get to keep the Lightform token.
The first step of Lightform's ETB triggered ability just changes its subtypes, not its types, so it will become an "Enchantment Creature - Aura". It won't be a Zombie anymore because the ability doesn't say it becomes an Aura "in addition to its other types", so this might matter if you have other effects that care about Zombies. As you continue resolving the ability, you manifest the top card of your library but then you aren't able to attach Lightform to the manifested creature because creatures can't be attached to other things. When the ability is finished resolving, the game will see an Aura on the battlefield that isn't attached to anything and will put it into the graveyard. The Lightform token will then cease to exist.
January 23, 2024 9:10 a.m.