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Anafenza and no creature cards creature (animated land)

Sept. 9, 2015 10:12:57 AM

Thomas Weber
German-speaking countries

Anafenza and no creature cards creature (animated land)

Exile Anafenza, the Foremost an animated land or a manifest non-creature? It is a creature, but not a creature card.

When it exile, why?

Sorry for my englisch, its not god, im german.

Edited Thomas Weber (Sept. 9, 2015 10:14:02 AM)

Sept. 14, 2015 02:40:24 PM

Callum Milne
Forum Moderator
Judge (Uncertified)

Canada - Western Provinces

Anafenza and no creature cards creature (animated land)

This question has been asked in this forum before, and is actually covered by the Gatherer Rulings for Anafenza, the Foremost:

Anafenza’s last ability cares only what the card would be in the zone it’s moving from, not what it would be in the graveyard. For example, if a land card you control becomes a creature due to an effect and then dies, the land card will be exiled. But if a creature card with bestow is an Aura when it would be put into the graveyard, it ends up in the graveyard.

This happens because Anafenza's ability is a replacement effect, and must therefore be applied before the event it's trying to replace actually occurs. So when the ability goes looking to see if there's anything to apply to, the animated land or manifested noncreature will at that time still be on the battlefield and therefore will be creatures. The ability sees that those creatures are cards, and that they are going to the graveyard, and so will apply to them. It doesn't care that once they arrived in the graveyard they would have no longer been creature cards, because it doesn't try to predict the future.
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