What do you do if Gonti, Lord of Luxury draws 4 lands?

Asked by vic 8 years ago

I looked up the gatherer ruling and found this:

"An effect that instructs you to cast a card doesn't allow you to play lands."

So I know I can't play a land, but I wonder if I can even exile one in the first place. Do I just take a land and leave it facedown the whole time? I suppose that's what I do, and try to bluff my opponent into thinking it's something great. I just wanted to check.

Raging_Squiggle says... Accepted answer #1

It's permanently exiled face down. The ability instructs you to exile a card face down, it doesn't say to exile a non-land card face down. This is also mandatory, so you must choose one of the 4 land cards. As you said, you cannot cast the land card so it just stays in exile.

December 29, 2016 4:15 p.m.

Neotrup says... #2

You can also choose to exile a land face down even if there are 3 spells and only the 1 land, it's just not usually the correct decision.

December 29, 2016 5 p.m.

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