It that betrays and blightsteel colossus
Asked by ZarBluestar 11 years ago
If I attack with It That Betrays and my opponent has no other choice but to sacrifice his Blightsteel Colossus , would I gain controle of it because he sacrificed it, or would it go into his library since it was put into the graveyard?
first off, Blightsteel Colossus never actually goes to the graveyard. It's ability is a replacement effect, and therefore it replaces the trip to the graveyard
and the gatherer ruling on It That Betrays says that if the creature is no longer in the graveyard if it resolves, than the ability won't do anything.
6/15/2010 If the sacrificed permanent that caused the second ability to trigger somehow leaves the graveyard before the ability resolves (possibly because it was returned to the battlefield by the ability of another It That Betrays), the ability simply won't do anything when it resolves.
October 29, 2013 10:11 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
Though the final result is correct, the quoted ruling isn't the exact reason for it. This isn't a case of the sacrificed permanent going to the graveyard and then changing zones somewhere else (making it a different game object from "that card" that was sacrificed). A replacement effect is moving the object to a zone other than the graveyard. If it were a public zone, like exile or the command zone, then you would actually get to take it. The reason It That Betrays can't grab Blightsteel Colossus in this example is because it's being moved to a hidden zone.
400.7d Abilities that trigger when an object moves from one zone to another (for example, "When Rancor is put into a graveyard from the battlefield") can find the new object that it became in the zone it moved to when the ability triggered, if that zone is a public zone.
zeldazach says... #1
State based action, Blightsteel Colossus would go to their graveyard, then directly to their library. You wouldn't gain control of the creature unfortunately. However, if you managed to get them to remove their Blightsteel, you shouldn't lose.
October 29, 2013 10:11 p.m.