If you cycle a card with madness while Abandoned Sarcophagus is on your field, does it stay in exile?
Asked by Yesterday 6 years ago
If you have an Abandoned Sarcophagus on your side of the field and cycle an Ichor Slick (considering the new oracle text for madness cards is that you discard them into exile and then they go into the graveyard afterwards) if you chose not to cast the spell for its madness cost and it would ordinarily then go into your graveyard, does it instead go into exile?
I'm asking because Ichor Slick would enter from exile instead of just entering the graveyard by being cycled from hand. Obviously Abandoned Sarcophagus refers to cards that are being cycled as the cause of the effect that puts them into the graveyard, and not just cards that have been cycled at some point, otherwise you could cycle a Miscalculation into your graveyard with Abandoned Sarcophagus on the field and then repeatedly cast it from the graveyard because it 'was cycled'.
Thanks in advance.
@Neotrup, so even if you do cast it from exile with madness it will still be exiled afterwards?
August 9, 2017 10:59 a.m.
If you cast any instant or sorcery with cycling, whether from hand, graveyard, or exile, it will be exiled on resolution due to the effect of Abandoned Sarcophagus. The same is true for a permanent with cycling being destroyed or a spell with cycling being countered.
Neotrup says... Accepted answer #1
It's not just a change to the oracle text, it was an update to the comprehensive rules with Shadows over Innistrad. You are correct that when you discard Ichor Slick to cycling you always exile it now, and on resolution of it's madness triggered ability if you don't cast it you will attempt to put it into the graveyard from exile, but with Abandoned Sarcophagus will instead exile it. This is one of the cases of exiling an exiled card.
August 9, 2017 10:50 a.m.