When a nontoken creature ETB, exile it and create a token...

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Post by Mimicvat » 3 years ago

I've been putting together a deck for a custom commander from the Custom Dragon Highlander group. The commander is named Yoko, Scrambled Reality, and it has the rules text "whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, exile that creature with a scrambled counter on it and create a 1/1 white egg golem creature..."

If a creature enters the battlefield, this ability will trigger. Then lets say the creature is killed or sacrificed at instant speed. I imagine the creature would not go into exile with a scrambled counter. But, what I'm not sure about, is if the egg will be created. Is this a case of the game fulfilling all the rules that it can (no exile, but yes egg) or is the entire replacement clause nullified because the creature is no longer exiled? Or something else entirely??
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Post by WizardMN » 3 years ago

As you have it right now, the creation of the egg is not contingent on the exiling of the creature that entered. That is, if they do what you are suggesting, the Egg is created anyway for the reason you stated: the game is trying to do as much as possible.

If you want it to be contingent on it being exiled, just add in a "if you do" condition. So, it will read "whenever a nontoken creature enters, exile it with a scrambled counter on it. If you do, create a token".

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