Tawnos's Coffin interactions
Asked by SurpriZe 7 years ago
I'm not sure what happens in the following situations:
1) I have Karn, Silver Golem, Voltaic Construct, and Tawnos's Coffin on the battlefield. Next, I make the coffin a creature with Karn, use Tawnos's Coffin's ability on some other creature, and while it's resolving I untap the coffin with Voltaic Construct and target another creature with Tawnos's Coffin. I know that after the abilities have been resolved both creatures get exiled, but when Tawnos's Coffin untaps again, will both creatures return to the battlefield, or only the last exiled creature?
2) I use Karn, Silver Golem's ability on an artifact to make it a creature, then exile this artifact creature with Tawnos's Coffin, and thus it ceases to be a creature after it gets exiles by the ability. After the coffin untaps, will the exiled artifact that is no longer a creature return to the battlefield?
Thanks for the quick reply, chosenone124!
Just to make sure, are you 100% convinced that's the case in the first situation, without exceptions? It's just that I couldn't find it anywhere in the rulings/gatherer description.
February 27, 2018 4:07 a.m.
Of course there are exceptions to the first one, this is magic afterall, maybe one of the creatures is actually a sorcery and can't be returned, or Tawnos's Coffin leaves the battlefield between the resolutions of it's two activations. But in general, yes, both creatures will return to the battlefield the next time the coffin becomes untapped. Both cards have the same trigger condition and will trigger at the same time. You'll control both triggers and choose the order the triggers get put on the stack, in effect controlling the order the creatures return. Note that the two creatures do not return at the same time, but sequentially, which makes a difference for which one sees the other with triggering and any replacement effects that might apply.
chosenone124 says... #1
1) They will both return. Each exiled object has their "when" condition triggered and returns.
2) The coffin doesn't care what kind of permanent card it returns. As long as it is returning a permanent card. The Oracle text states to "return that exiled card to the battlefield". (by the way, it has to be a permanent because you can't return a nonpermanent to the battlefield)
February 27, 2018 3:48 a.m.