How does Promise of Tomorrow interact with other effects that put a dying creature into exile?
Asked by TanhelNet 2 years ago
Hello, while brewing i wondered how Promise of Tomorrow would interact with abilities that would put a dying creature into exile instead of it's owners graveyard.
So, specifically: If an opponent destroys my Fatestitcher while my Promise of Tomorrow is in play, would Fatestitcher be put into exile with its Unearth ability or by the enchantment? And, if i don't control other creatures, does Promise of Tomorrow return him to the bf?
Thanks for your answers!
Polaris says... Accepted answer #1
Promise of Tomorrow is kind of unique in that it exiles with a triggered ability. Most effects that catch dying creatures and exile them (including unearth) do it as a replacement effect, which doesn't use the stack. When an unearthed creature leaves play, the unearth replacement effect directs it to exile instead of wherever it would have gone. Your Fatestitcher won't hit the battlefield at all, so not only will Promise of Tomorrow not exile it, it won't even trigger because Fatestitcher didn't actually hit the graveyard, so it never "died." The same would be true if there was a Leyline of the Void or Rest in Peace out.
In the end, Promise of Tomorrow won't bring it back because Promise didn't exile it with its first ability. A Fatestitcher that wasn't unearthed and just died normally will get exiled to Promise like anything else.
February 13, 2022 6:53 p.m.