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Replacement effects and "from anywhere"

Sept. 15, 2015 01:43:43 AM

Mario Haßler
Judge (Uncertified)

German-speaking countries

Replacement effects and "from anywhere"

Regarding the answers to Thomas Weber's question and Sam Sherman's question on Anafenza, the Foremost: I was surprised that a replacement effect that applies to a “creature card” can apply to a non-creature card if that card was a creature on the battlefield due to another effect. And that the same replacement effect doesn't apply to a creature card if that card was a non-creature permanent on the battlefield.

Following this, does that mean that:

1. a permanent (e. g. Clever Impersonator) that's a copy of Darksteel Colossus, Blightsteel Colossus, Progenitus, or Legacy Weapon and that would be put into its owner's graveyard does get shuffled into the library instead?

2. the cards named in 1. don't get shuffled into their owners' libraries when they don't have their abilities on the battlefield and then move to the graveyard (e. g. because they are destroyed or sacrificed)?

3. a manifested instant or sorcery card ends up in the graveyard when it dies even with Dryad Militant on the battlefield?

Thank you.

Kind regards,

Mario Hassler

Sept. 15, 2015 01:09:43 PM

Callum Milne
Forum Moderator
Judge (Uncertified)

Canada - Western Provinces

Replacement effects and "from anywhere"

Yes to all three questions.

Replacement effects must exist and be applied before the action they're trying to replace occurs, so in cases 1 and 2 whether the permanent would or would not have a replacement effect once it arrived in the zone it's moving to is irrelevant, and whether the replacement effect would care about it after its arrival in case 3 is also irrelevant.