{"id":4389,"date":"2014-09-24T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T16:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:49:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:49:21","slug":"anafenza-and-tokens-they-arent-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2014\/09\/anafenza-and-tokens-they-arent-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Anafenza and tokens (they aren&#8217;t &#8220;cards&#8221;)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img  style='float:left'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Anafenza, the Foremost'><\/p>Let\u2019s talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Anafenza%2C+the+Foremost&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Anafenza, the Foremost<\/a>&#8216;s second ability. &#8220;If a creature <em>card<\/em> would be put into an opponent&#8217;s graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.&#8221; That means Anafenza doesn&#8217;t exile all creatures, only those that are creature cards. This leaves creature tokens saying, &#8220;What about us?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well what about them? A creature token is not actually considered a <em>card<\/em>, even if it is represented by a card with a Magic back, or came from a Magic booster. The creature tokens will still go to the graveyard like normal before ceasing to exist. This will still cause triggered abilities that require the death of a creature to trigger, which won&#8217;t trigger for any creature cards that get exiled as part of Anafenza\u2019s ability.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by Angela Schabauer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A token is never a card, and vice versa. Anafenza&#8217;s replacement effect only applies to actual cards, so it doesn&#8217;t interfere with tokens hitting the graveyard normally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38,33],"tags":[1154],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characteristics","category-preventionandreplacementeffects","tag-anafenza-the-foremost","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}