Sleeper Agent and "enters the battlefield"
Asked by Laylong 11 years ago
Sleeper Agent looks to be correcting my understanding of "enters the battlefield." I had taken that to separate my opponent's battlefield from my own and that if say I Mind Control my opponent's Eternal Witness , that I could trigger it's effect to return a creature from my graveyard.
But from the look of Sleeper Agent , it would infinite trigger between the players. Or is there an unwritten rule to it that it will only trigger once per turn (making my above example allowed.)
Exchanging control of or gaining control of a permanent doesn't cause it to leave and reenter the battlefield. Permanents can only enter the battlefield from other zones (such as your hand, library, graveyard, exile, etc.).
July 12, 2013 2:33 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #3
There's only one battlefield, and it's a zone shared by all players (the exile and command zones are the same way). Changing control of something on the battlefield doesn't cause it to change zones.
Sleeper Agent enters the battlefield under your opponent's control and stays there until something else changes that.
Taking control of another player's creature won't cause its "enters the battlefield" abilities to trigger again.
July 12, 2013 2:51 p.m.
@Rhadamanthus Just a little correction: Sleeper Agent doesn't enter under your opponent's control, it enters under yours, then the opponent gains control of it.
July 12, 2013 4:06 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #5
Whoops, I didn't read it closely enough. Thanks for catching that.
drakanar says... #1
When control of a creature/permanent is changed, it does not actually leave the battlefield and return; therefore, the ability would not trigger again.
July 12, 2013 2:30 p.m.