No Rest for the Wicked
Asked by Oishii San 13 years ago
no-rest-for-the-the-wicked states that you can return to your hand all creature cards that were put into your graveyard this turn. If you have land cards in play that were turned into creatures until the end of turn would No Rest for the Wicked return those to your hand also because they were creatures in addition to lands when they hit the graveyard?
Oishii San says... #2
The wording of No Rest for the Wicked makes it sound like the card checks for the type of the cards that are passing into your graveyard, not what the type of the cards currently are in your graveyard.
January 5, 2012 7:12 p.m.
SandyDufresne says... #3
The way that I understand it is that once No Rest for the Wicked checks for creatures that went to the graveyard, the land creature has already reverted back to a land card and therefore, no longer a creature card for which No Rest for the Wicked checks. The only land that I think can get around it is Dryad Arbor .
January 5, 2012 7:17 p.m.
The wording can be broken down as such: All creature cards (base of selection); That (introducer for limiting attributes); Were put into ... (the limiting attribute).
Because the wording first selects creatures in your graveyard then limits this selection to only those put there this turn, and manlands are always lands outside of the battlefield, manlands fail to be selected from the very beginning.
January 5, 2012 7:26 p.m.
No Rest for the Wicked does state it looks for creature cards so only permanents that have the supertype "Creature" will be brought back, It can not bring back an animated Inkmoth Nexus for example.
January 5, 2012 7:36 p.m.
Oishii San says... #6
That totally blows!!!! All my ideas ruined. lol Thanks guys!
January 5, 2012 7:38 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #7
The wording on No Rest for the Wicked makes it clear what happens:
"Return to your hand all creature CARDS..."
Lands are not creature cards outside of the battlefield with the exception of Dryad Arbor .
Say you have an animated Inkmoth Nexus . It dies and is put into your graveyard. Although it had the type "Creature" while animated on the battlefield, it is not a creature card while it is in the graveyard. No Rest for the Wicked does not check what the card entered the graveyard as. It only checks if a card is a creature card in the graveyard, and then checks again to see if it was put there from the battlefield this turn.
January 5, 2012 7:39 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #8
When an effect uses "card" to describe something, it means a card of that type not on the stack or battlefield. Even if the lands happened to be creatures when they died, they're not creature cards in your graveyard, they're land cards, and No Rest for the Wicked can't return them to your hand.
109.2. If a spell or ability uses a description of an object that includes a card type or subtype, but doesn't include the word "card," "spell," "source," or "scheme," it means a permanent of that card type or subtype on the battlefield.
109.2a If a spell or ability uses a description of an object that includes the word "card" and the name of a zone, it means a card matching that description in the stated zone.
109.2b If a spell or ability uses a description of an object that includes the word "spell," it means a spell matching that description on the stack.
January 5, 2012 7:42 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #9
In other news, Planar Birth if they're basic lands.
SandyDufresne says... #1
No because once the creature land go to your graveyard, it returns to its original state.
January 5, 2012 7:10 p.m.