Land creatures and their doom

Asked by Hyato 2 years ago

Say I have a land that became a creature with +1/+1 counters (Emergent Sequence) and the opponent casts Heartless Act and removes those counters... Will the land go to the graveyard or go back to being a land?

Caerwyn says... Accepted answer #1

The Land is still both a Land and a Creature. When you remove the +1/+1 counter, it becomes a 0/0 Land Creature and will die as a state based action due to having zero toughness.

As a note, the card cannot "go back to being a land" because it never was not a land. It gained the creature type, but Emergent Sequence specifically says that it is "still a land".

If the card does not specify it is "still a a land" then it would only be a creature. In such a situation it still would not go back to being a land if all counters are removed (assuming the animation spell worked the same way and made it a 0/0 with counters)--it would still die as a creature with zero toughness.

August 26, 2021 3:11 p.m.