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I graduated U.C. Davis with a BS in CS, now I'm a programmer with a love of web development and databases.


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comment What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control?
Opinions seem to favor trusting the rules quotes to communicate parts of the answer (to a point) so I'll adhere to that in judging future answers. (This was already a fine answer anyway.)
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comment What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control?
I should add, I feel quoting the rules still adds value: finding the relevant sections is an important step in verifying the answer.
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comment What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control?
@ghoppe In my experience, the rules are scary; all of my friends ignore anything that looks like a quote from the rules, so that's how I read answers here: skip the rules, see if the added text includes the correct answer. The question about triggers comes up all the time, so I felt it was worth restating "in English" so people might read it. If you feel strongly that redundancy is bad, I'll be happy to remove these comments. This could be worth talking about on meta: do we teach just the rules or how to read the rules?
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comment What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control?
Your example doesn't match your title. "Returning a creature to its owner's hand" is not what Astral Slide does. There are special rules for a zone now called "Exile", older cards called this "Removed from game". When you exile something, its not on the battlefield so it can't be affected by things like Wrath of God, but it also isn't in your hand to be played. Where I play we usually just set them off to the side. David's answer is correct either way, for a player's hand or exile.
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comment What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control?
Please note, the token does actually change zones first before disappearing, so if something would trigger "Whenever a creature leaves the battlefield", the token will cause this just like a creature card.
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comment In MTG, do Werewolves transform due to an out of range turn? Or an out of range player's spells?
This is why I was looking for someone to confirm. I was incorrect! I was thinking about the conditions, how many spells played, but not the turn itself not causing the trigger. I got to thinking werewolves get free turns to flip, nearly automatically, but the triggered abilities not even triggering on the extra turns makes much more sense all around. Thank you.
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accepted In MTG, do Werewolves transform due to an out of range turn? Or an out of range player's spells?
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revised In MTG, do Werewolves transform due to an out of range turn? Or an out of range player's spells?
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comment In MTG, do Werewolves transform due to an out of range turn? Or an out of range player's spells?
But what about the out of range player's turn? The turn has to exist in case the player next to you plays spells that affect you during that turn such as Volcanic fallout to kill an attacking 2/2, but which also kills your creatures. So werewolves will just automatically flip with enough out of range player's taking turns?
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comment In MTG, do Werewolves transform due to an out of range turn? Or an out of range player's spells?
I don't believe that's correct. Global Enchantments don't affect creatures outside their range, "Destroy all creatures" is limited by range, auras fall of if the object they enchant moves out of range. (by such effects as Mind Control) I'm going to double check if its actually called "spell" range, cause it seems to affect everything.
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asked In MTG, do Werewolves transform due to an out of range turn? Or an out of range player's spells?
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comment In MTG, can I use Stave Off to save my creature from Oblivion Ring?
In my experience, what you can't do, bring your creature back, is what most players WANT the card to do with Stave Off, probably relating to drawing it after their creature is gone.
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accepted In MTG, can I use Stave Off to save my creature from Oblivion Ring?