Reanimating Akroma, Angel of Wrath with animate dead
Asked by Androstosity 12 years ago
I know that protections don't work in the graveyard, but I am not completely positive about what happens once Akroma, Angel of Wrath is out of the graveyard. I've looked into it online, but the answers vary from she quickly dies, she enters as a 6/6 with the Animate Dead falling off and getting her without the downside, or all the way to it just works as normal.
Anyone able to shed some light on this?
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #2
Animate Dead only targets when it is cast. Since protection is a static ability that only functions while the card is a permanent on the battlefield, Animate Dead can target Akroma, Angel of Wrath while the latter is in the graveyard.
However, once Akroma, Angel of Wrath is returned to the battlefield, its protection becomes active and Animate Dead can't be attached to it (because protection stops damage, enchanting, equipping, blocking, and targeting) and it is put into its owner's graveyard. Akroma, Angel of Wrath is then sacrificed.
deseroth13: Note that to fizzle is to be countered as a state-based action due to illegal targets. Animate Dead does not fizzle; it just can't attach to Akroma, Angel of Wrath , and therefore it will be put into its owner's graveyard.
Gatherer ruling:
4/1/2008: If the creature card put onto the battlefield has Protection from Black (or anything that prevents this from legally being attached), this wont be able to attach to it. Then this will go to the graveyard as a State-Based Action, causing the creature to be sacrificed. This is a change from recent functionality.
deseroth13 says... #1
Well she comes onto the battlefield and the spell targets her and fizzles and then she goes back into the gravyard
October 16, 2012 12:18 a.m.