How Does Nim Deathmantle work with body lands?

Asked by Luken 8 years ago

Say i turned my Inkmoth Nexus into a creature and it got bolt'd, would i be able to use the Nim Deathmantle ability to bring it back, or would the possibility not even happen for me.

If i could, it would only return as a land correct due to the card not remembering it's past ability?

Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1

Nim Deathmantle says it will return "that card" to the battlefield, and doesn't say that the card has to still be a creature card while it's in the graveyard. You can use it to get back Inkmoth Nexus and friends.

Note that this is covered in one of the rulings listed on Deathmantle's Gatherer entry:

1/1/2011 Nim Deathmantle's second ability may return a card it can't equip to the battlefield. For example, if a nontoken artifact that's become a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, Nim Deathmantle's second ability triggers. If you pay 4 as it resolves, you'll return that card to the battlefield. However, Nim Deathmantle can't equip it, so Nim Deathmantle remains attached to whatever it was already equipping (or, if it was unattached, it remains so). The same is true if a nontoken creature with protection from artifacts is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, for example.

December 18, 2015 1:24 p.m.