Meld and 'Polymorph' effects.
Asked by WillowtheCouncil 3 years ago
If I meld two cards, for instance, Hanweir Garrison and Hanweir Battlements Flip, what happens in the following two cases.
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I cast Reality Scramble on the melded card. Can I flip a land or a creature, or just a creature? And I assume I only flip one card, right?
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I cast Warp World. Do I get two permanents or one from the Melded card?
WillowtheCouncil says... #2
@Tylord2894 thanks for the reply. Doesn't Mutate work the exact same way, then?
July 17, 2020 2:07 a.m.
Tylord2894 says... #3
In this interaction, yes, Mutate and Meld are basically identical in that one thing will move zones, but several things will be put into that new zone.
Tylord2894 says... Accepted answer #1
In the first case, you can only find one creature. You do, however, get to put Hanweir Garrison and Hanweir Battlements Flip onto the bottom of your library in any order. In the second case, you get one permanent from the melded card.
A melded permanent in a single permanent. When it dies or is some other way changes zone, one permanent leaves the battlefield but multiple cards are put into the new zone. Notably, this means that an effect that counts the number of permanents you control only sees that melded permanent as just that, one permanent. Similarly, an effect that does something to a melded permanent will do that thing to each piece while still only "seeing" one permanent.
Hope this helps!!
July 16, 2020 8:49 p.m.