Timeline for Can I exile a token copy of Greenwarden of Murasa for its second ability?
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| Aug 1, 2017 at 16:47 | comment | added | ikegami | @doppelgreener, The wording of the replacement effect would be closer "If ~ would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may exile it instead. If you do, return target card from your graveyard to your hand." That would indeed work, because tokens can be exiled. | |
| Aug 1, 2017 at 16:45 | comment | added | ikegami | @doppelgreener, Re "Can't you technically still choose to exile it?", I think there's a rule against choosing to do something impossible, but it's moot. Even if you could choose to do it, you couldn't actually do it, so the "if you do" condition wouldn't be matched. | |
| Jul 28, 2017 at 9:37 | comment | added | doppelgreener | @steenbergh To be a replacement effect it would have to not be triggered, since if the ability gets triggered it's too late to replace that event, so we'd get something like "If Greenwarden of Murasa would die, you may exile it instead. If you do...". I think that would certainly change the answer, but alas. | |
| Jul 28, 2017 at 8:25 | comment | added | steenbergh | Would this be different if the wording said: "When Greenwarden of Murasa dies, you may exile it instead of placing it in your graveyard"? Would that change of wording make this a replacement-effect? And would a token be able to do the replacement effect (ie instead of moving from the battlefield to the grave and cease exisisting, it now moves from the bf to exile and ceases being)? | |
| Jul 28, 2017 at 0:07 | comment | added | doppelgreener | It may be that trying to assess whether you can/can't choose to exile a token that isn't there is splitting hairs: the fact remains you can't compete all of "choose to exile it", or there is no way to take advantage of "you may exile it", and whether that's because you can't choose or there isn't an "it" is probably immaterial. | |
| Jul 27, 2017 at 22:46 | comment | added | sgf | Can't you technically still choose to exile it? Of course, that doesn't do anything, because you only get to return a card "if you do [exile it]", which you can't? So you can make the choice as you wish, you just can't exile it. | |
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| Jul 27, 2017 at 19:35 | history | answered | Hackworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |