sorin lord of innistrad ruling
Asked by durzostarfire 10 years ago
Does Sorin, Lord of Innistrad -6 ability return enchantments as well speaking they would be sent to the graveyard??
ThisIsBullshit says... #2
No, his ability explicitly states three creatures and/or planeswalkers. Since enchantments are neither of those, you can't bring them back.
Also, questions about rulings go into the Q&A section in the header bar, just FYI.
January 7, 2015 10:06 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #4
Rules questions belong in the Q&A, which is linked in the header bar. At least we've saved the trouble of moving this to BE (btw, rules questions get moved to BE because they can't be moved to the Q&A, not because they actually belong here).
Sorin, Lord of Innistrad's -6 ability targets only creatures and/or other planeswalkers, which means the targets need to have at least one of those types while on the battlefield. Only the targeted cards that were destroyed will be returned to the battlefield under your control ("each card put into a graveyard this way" means "each card put into a graveyard as a result of being destroyed by the first effect of this ability").
Auras attached to the targeted and destroyed permanents won't even be sent to the graveyard until after the ability completely resolves. Unattached auras go to the yard as a state-based action, and SBAs don't check in the middle of resolutions.
January 7, 2015 10:10 p.m.
durzostarfire says... #5
But enchantments can enchant creatures so they're not targeted but still go to graveyard
January 7, 2015 10:27 p.m.
durzostarfire says... #6
Wait nvrmind hadn't fully read epochalyptiks comment thanks for help
January 7, 2015 10:29 p.m.
golffore297 says... #7
Yes, but even though they were attached to the creatures, they are not being targeted with the ability and therefore aren't going to return as a result. The only things that will come back are the creatures and planeswalkers destroyed with the ability.
January 7, 2015 10:31 p.m.
it helps to read the cards first sometimes. Other times its best to just guess what your cards do.
January 8, 2015 7:03 a.m.
Hmmmm no one mentioned that IF you somehow animate an enchantment (like with March of the Machines+Liquimetal Coating/Mycosynth Lattice) that yes indeed then you could destroy and thus return said enchantment
January 14, 2015 3:14 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #10
No one mentioned it because no one asked about it. Answering a straightforward question with a discussion of a random corner case rarely helps anybody.
January 14, 2015 9:43 a.m.
Well he never specified if the enchantment was a creature at the time it was sent to the grave or not so I just thought I'd point out a way that you could indeed do what he was asking if he could do
Wolfninja says... #1
First of all, questions should be in the Q&A section. Second of all, Sorin's -6 can't target enchantments... "Destroy up to three target creatures and or other planeswalkers." So no, he can't return enchantments back because he can't destroy them.
January 7, 2015 10:06 p.m.