Void Attendant + Anafenza and "important" exiled cards.

Asked by sonnet666 8 years ago

If you combine Void Attendant and Anafenza, the Foremost you get to activate Void Attendant on the same card over and over again to get lots of Eldrazi Scions for each. This is because Anafenza's replacement effect simply shuttles the card back to exile every time it would go to the graveyard. This is well known, and I have no issues with this interaction.

However, my question is how does this interact with "special" cards in the exile zone? For cards with linked abilities like Isochron Scepter, Narset, Enlightened Master, and Hoarding Dragon (there are many more, but I think these three cover most everything you can do with exiled cards), will these cards abilities still be able to "find" the exiled card? Technically, it never changed zones, so I'm leaning yes, but I'm not totally sure.

Also applies to cards that have abilities that function in exile, like Suspend and Cipher.

Boza says... #1

No, the card the you process and is reexiled with Leyline of the Void or Anafenza, the Foremost is considered a new object, so if something like Isochron Scepter or Narset, Enlightened Master is looking for the "processed" card, it will not be able to find it.

Same with Suspend - the card will be exiled with 0 counters on it and no way of exiting exile without outside assistance. Cipher functions analogously to the Isochron Scepter case above.

September 28, 2015 11:07 a.m.

sonnet666 says... #2

Props for making me look up "analogously."

But in all seriousness, could you provide some documentation for that answer?

September 28, 2015 11:24 a.m.

Boza says... Accepted answer #3

From BFZ release notes, emphasis added:

If a replacement effect will cause cards that would be put into a graveyard from anywhere to be exiled instead (such as the one created by Anafenza, the Foremost), you can still put an exiled card into its opponent's graveyard. The card becomes a new object and remains in exile. In this situation, you can't use a single exiled card if required to put more than one exiled card into the graveyard. Conversely, you could use the same card in this situation if two separate spells or abilities each required you to put a single exiled card into its owner's graveyard.

September 28, 2015 11:53 a.m.

sonnet666 says... #4

Thanks.

This was kinda the answer I was hoping for. I'm a little surprised, but I guess this combo is even more powerful than I thought.

September 28, 2015 12:02 p.m.

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