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Author Topic: Gaea's Blessing + Yixlid Jailer  (Read 1702 times)
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« on: July 29, 2007, 09:20:47 am »

At Waterbury they ruled Jailer would negate the blessing's ability, but I would have argued otherwise.  It seems going from the library to graveyard is the triggered ability and as long as it goes to the graveyard and not rfg, it will resolve.  Am I wrong?

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Gaea's Blessing
Target player shuffles up to three target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.
Draw a card.
When Gaea's Blessing is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Yixlid Jailer
Cards in graveyards lose all abilities.
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2007, 12:36:28 am »

What you were told at Waterbury is correct.  Normally, objects that exist immediately after an event are checked to see if the event matched any trigger conditions.  There is no point when Gaea's Blessing is in the graveyard that it has it's triggered ability, so it does not trigger.

At Waterbury they ruled Jailer would negate the blessing's ability, but I would have argued otherwise.  It seems going from the library to graveyard is the triggered ability and as long as it goes to the graveyard and not rfg, it will resolve.  Am I wrong?
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2007, 03:08:00 pm »

Just to clarify. 

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Yixlid Jailer is in play. A spell returns Golgari Brownscale from your graveyard to your hand. Do you gain 2 life?

No, you don't. If a card is moving from a zone that's visible to everyone (e.g. in play or in a graveyard) into one that's hidden (e.g. a library or hand), we check for triggered abilities while it's visible. At that point, Golgari Brownscale has no abilities and can't trigger

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Yixlid Jailer is in play, and a spell puts the top card of your library into your graveyard. It turns out to be Gaea's Blessing. Do you shuffle your graveyard into your library?

No, you don't, for the same reason: If a card moves from a hidden zone into a visible one, again we check for triggered abilities while the card is visible. Gaea's Blessing can only trigger while it's in the graveyard - but it doesn't have the ability there. Guerrilla Tactics also gets shut down this way.

Wizards did a full write up about how Jailer works here.
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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2007, 02:01:44 pm »

Thanks much!
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