If Ashaya, Soul of the Wild turns creatures into lands, will I get triggers from The Gitrog Monster if I sacrifice them?
Asked by Russ1981 2 years ago
If Ashaya, Soul of the Wild turns my creatures into lands, will I get the draw triggers from The Gitrog Monster when they die?
JoyTheEnbySliverLover says... #2
Unfortunately, Neotrup is correct, much to my own dismay. I was hoping they were wrong but as it turns out my future deck is not going to be happening now. I was going to make a gitrog deck based around the idea of infinitely sacking tokens to draw. With this info, I guess that can't happen now. Oof.
Neotrup says... Accepted answer #1
No. Abilities generally look at the object in the new zone to see if they trigger. Leaves the battlefield triggers are a big exception to this, they look object as it existed on the battlefield, however, because The Gitrog Monster doesn't specifically look at lands going to the graveyard from the battlefield, it only looks at how they exist in the graveyard.
603.6. Trigger events that involve objects changing zones are called "zone-change triggers." Many abilities with zone-change triggers attempt to do something to that object after it changes zones. During resolution, these abilities look for the object in the zone that it moved to. If the object is unable to be found in the zone it went to, the part of the ability attempting to do something to the object will fail to do anything. The ability could be unable to find the object because the object never entered the specified zone, because it left the zone before the ability resolved, or because it is in a zone that is hidden from a player, such as a library or an opponent’s hand. (This rule applies even if the object leaves the zone and returns again before the ability resolves.) The most common zone-change triggers are enters-the-battlefield triggers and leaves-the-battlefield triggers.
603.6c Leaves-the-battlefield abilities trigger when a permanent moves from the battlefield to another zone, or when a phased-in permanent leaves the game because its owner leaves the game. These are written as, but aren't limited to, "When [this object] leaves the battlefield, . . ." or "Whenever [something] is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, . . . ." (See also rule 603.10.) An ability that attempts to do something to the card that left the battlefield checks for it only in the first zone that it went to. An ability that triggers when a card is put into a certain zone "from anywhere" is never treated as a leaves-the-battlefield ability, even if an object is put into that zone from the battlefield.
June 22, 2021 10:57 p.m.