Nezumi Graverobber Flip question
Asked by abenz419 10 years ago
I'm slightly confused by the wording. I may be putting to much thought into it but I'm not exactly sure how to get it to flip. It says "exile target card from an opponents graveyard. If no cards are in that graveyard flip Nezumi Graverobber". Does this mean I have to exile the last card out of my opponents graveyard in order to flip it over? Or can I activate the ability when my opponents graveyard is already empty to flip it?
The very first part of the ability says exile target card, so this leads me to believe that I can't activate the ability if their graveyard is empty as I can't declare a legal target. But it's the last part of it that is causing the confusion. It just says if there are no cards in that graveyard then flip it. I'm not sure if the last part is contingent on the first part or not.
Yeah that's the way I was leaning, because I figured you couldn't activate the ability without a legal target. It just feels like if the second part was dependent on the first part then it would have said "exile target card from an opponents graveyard THEN if there are no cards in that graveyard flip Nezumi Graverobber", which is why I wasn't really sure if one was dependent on the other or not.
September 9, 2014 10:48 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
When a spell/ability is resolving, you follow all the instructions in the order they're printed. Like Devonin says, you have to have a legal target to activate the ability in the first place. As the ability resolves it first exiles the card, then checks to see if the graveyard is empty, then flips Graverobber if that check was good.
Devonin says... Accepted answer #1
Nezumi Graverobber You cannot activate the ability without a legal target, meaning they need to have at least one card in their graveyard. Then it checks whether their graveyard is now empty. If it is, the graverobber flips.
So basically yes, it needs to be the last card in their graveyard.
September 9, 2014 10:38 a.m.