Is there a way for Aura Shards and Soul Warden to work together?

Asked by benosmash 11 years ago

Lets say I have Aura Shards and Soul Warden in play, and I play a creature. Before it hits the battlefield, could I use Soul Warden's ability to turn an opponent's creature into an enchantment, and then use aura shard's activated ability to destroy the creature/enchantment?

If not, how would the cards interact? Is there a way to make them work in a similar way?

Epochalyptik says... #1

I'm not really sure what card you mean, but it isn't Soul Warden .

July 14, 2013 12:53 p.m.

Emrakool says... #2

Soul Warden 's ability doesn't turn a creature into anything. I just says that when another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. Unless you're talking about Soul Sculptor .

With Soul Sculptor 's ability, as soon as someone cast another creature spell, the affected creature would cease to be an enchantment and become a creature again while that spell is still on the stack. When that creature enters the battlefield, the previously affected creature will no longer be a legal target for Aura Shards .

July 14, 2013 1 p.m.

Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #3

@emrakool: OP is talking about responding to the creature spell by using Soul Sculptor to turn the opponent's creature into an enchantment. Because OP's creature spell has already been cast, it won't retroactively negate the Soul Sculptor 's effect. The targeted creature will be an enchantment when the creature spell resolves. Aura Shards will trigger, and its ability can legally target the enchantment that used to be a creature.

July 14, 2013 1:04 p.m.

Emrakool says... #4

Ah, I wasn't really thinking about responding the the spell on the stack with Soul Sculptor 's ability. I was still caught up a bit in the confusion of Soul Warden having said ability, then thinking out loud on how they may be referring to Soul Sculptor and how casting another creature spell interacts with its ability.

July 14, 2013 1:41 p.m.

benosmash says... #5

Totally meant Soul Sculptor . Had just looked at soul warden in a deck before I asked the question.

July 14, 2013 4:58 p.m.