Removing Gingerbrute's Artifact type
Asked by Delphen7 1 year ago
I was looking for an answer to another question, and stumbled across this ruling:
205.1a Some effects set an object’s card type. In such cases, the new card type(s) replaces any existing card types. Counters, effects, and damage marked on the object remain with it, even if they are meaningless to the new card type. Similarly, when an effect sets one or more of an object’s subtypes, the new subtype(s) replaces any existing subtypes from the appropriate set (creature types, land types, artifact types, enchantment types, planeswalker types, or spell types). If an object’s card type is removed, the subtypes correlated with that card type will remain if they are also the subtypes of a card type the object currently has; otherwise, they are also removed for the entire time the object’s card type is removed. Removing an object’s subtype doesn’t affect its card types at all
It looks like if Gingerbrute loses the artifact type, the food subtype will disappear with it, as food is explicitly an artifact subtype. Is that correct?
Yesterday says... Accepted answer #1
That's correct.
Noteworthy though is that while "Food token" seems to be evergreen ATM (that is to say, something can just say "Create a Food token", and it intrinsically means create a Food), those rules aren't dependant on the permanent actually being a Food once it's on the battlefield. So if Gingerbrute (or a regular Food token) stops being an artifact, it loses its Food subtyping, but you will still be able to sacrifice it to its own ability to gain 3 life.
May 19, 2022 6:42 a.m. Edited.