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Tag: Oblivion Ring
Banishing Light is not Oblivion Ring: Why Your Trick Doesn’t Work Now
Those of you who remember might remember a little "trick" that could be used to permanently exile a permanent. What you had to do was remove the Ring from the battlefield with its enter the battlefield trigger on the stack. This would cause the leave the battlefield ability to trigger and resolve first (doing nothing), then the enter the battlefield trigger would resolve and the targeted permanent would be permanently exiled. In Journey into Nyx, we got a new version of - . But just like was
Multiplayer Monday: What happens when a player leaves the game.
Today, we're covering what happens when a player leaves the game when the game consists of only individual players (not teams). This comes up most frequently in EDH/Commander and any other casual game with a bunch of players in a free-for-all. What happens when Susie is eliminated in the middle of the game, or even the middle of her turn? Well, the first thing that happens when a player leaves (either by conceding or by losing the game in any other way) is that all objects OWNED by that player
Redirect can’t change the target of Oblivion Ring.
Oblivion. Such a fun word. I use to send your permanent into OBLIVION! It's only natural to want to protect your permanents from this very popular enchantment. While there are lots of -style ways to get your toys back, wouldn't it be more fun to simply use and send THEIR permanent into OBLIVION? Let's look at these two cards. First, Oblivion Ring. Oblivion ring is an enchantment, but it is not an aura. Auras require a target when they are cast, but other enchantments such as Oblivion Ring do
You can “flicker” a creature to save it from a removal spell.
I'm excited for . Partially because it was a house at the prerelease, and partially because is one of my favorite cards. But why are both of these things true? Among other things, it's the fact that they can be used to dodge removal very easily. Let's use for our example. Ronny casts , and targets my with the trigger. In response, I cast Cloudshift targeting Avacyn. My Avacyn stays. But why? It's right there! The answer to that is the fun fact that whenever an object changes zones, it becomes
When a card moves from one zone to another it is a new object.
Many effects in Magic will cause a card or permanent to go from one zone to another. One of the most common way this happens is when a permanent in play is destroyed or a card is discarded and it goes to the graveyard. When a card goes from one zone to another it is treated as a new object, unless the effect that moved it is specifically looking for it in this new zone. For example, will exile another nonland permanent in play with its enters the battlefield ability. Oblivion Ring has a second