How does Lost in the Woods work?
Asked by thorton 13 years ago
Lost in the Woods, if the top card is a forest does it remove all opposing creatures from combat or do you check each creature individually?
Jarrod_0067 says... #2
@Epochalyptik, I have an assumption of my own. As you control the source of the ability so you can choose what order on the stack you want the triggers to be placed. All attackers are declared at once. Thus, if you Foresee or some other trick to know what's coming up, you can choose which creature gets removed from combat, assuming you reveal at least one forest. Is this correct?
January 20, 2012 4:44 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #3
Yes. Since all instances of Lost in the Woods's ability will go onto the stack at once, you choose the order in which they are stacked. This allows you to set yourself up to RFC certain creatures if you have knowledge of the order of your topdeck. Since the abilities are all individual instances, you may also cast spells or activate abilities in between the resolution of each one (for example, you can use Sensei's Divining Top to keep putting Forests on top as long as they're in your top three).
January 20, 2012 4:49 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
Also of note, Lost in the Woods's ability does not target. It can RFC creatures with shroud, hexproof, protection from green, etc.
January 20, 2012 4:51 a.m.
MagicalHacker says... #5
So imagine if you have a card that doesnt let you draw Omen Machine (plus that new cage that doesnt let anyone play cards from their library or graveyard) and you have only forest cards as your library... ;)
January 20, 2012 11:17 a.m.
Omen machine exiles the card before it's cast so that combo doesn't work :/
January 20, 2012 11:49 a.m.
MagicalHacker says... #8
oh what about Maralen of the Mornsong + Stranglehold + this?
January 20, 2012 4:23 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #9
Lost in the Woods forces you to put the revealed card on the bottom of your library, so if you were hoping to use a combo to keep the Forest on top, then you're out of luck.
January 20, 2012 4:43 p.m.
thanks for the answer epochalyptic
i dont think revealing a card and drawing a card are the same thing. correct me if im wrong, but im pretty sure Omen Machine will do nothing in combination with Lost in the Woods.
January 20, 2012 10:41 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #12
The vocabulary used by the game is very precise, to ensure there's as little confusion as possible about how effects work and interact. So yes, "revealing a card" is different from "drawing a card" (otherwise, it would be called "drawing a card").
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
Lost in the Woods's ability reads "whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a Forest card, remove that creature from combat. Then put the revealed card on the bottom of your library."
From this, we can gather that the ability is a triggered ability which triggers each time a creature is declared as an attacker and you are the defending player/you control the defending planeswalker. This means that the ability will trigger separately for separate creatures, and each ability will resolve individually.
January 20, 2012 3:47 a.m.