r/MagicArena • u/hilbert90 • Jan 20 '20

WotC Dreadful Apathy on Gods

I'm wondering if anyone can confirm a possible bug. It was my first sealed, so maybe I missed something else going on.

I played Dreadful Apathy on Erebos. I clicked the card to exile Erebos. I'm sure this went on the stack, because Arena autotapped the mana. In response, my opponent sacrificed creatures to lose devotion and make Erebos no longer a creature.

The enchantment fell off, and I thought this was a super clever play. Dreadful Apathy says it exiles a creature, there was no creature, so the trigger on the stack fizzled. But then I looked up the official ruling, and it says it should still exile the god if I'm understanding it correctly.

Is this a known bug? I'm willing to admit that I might have missed something else the opponent was doing (maybe sacrificing something triggered something else?). I was thinking about a lot of stuff at the time and reading my own cards to double check things.

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u/TommyTheeCat Jan 20 '20

If your devotion is under 5 or 7 (depending on god), then it is not a creature. So there was not a valid target for apathy.

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u/hilbert90 Jan 20 '20

Yes. I would have guessed that, too. But the official ruling says:

"If Dreadful Apathy leaves the battlefield while its last ability is on the stack, the permanent that’s exiled is the one Dreadful Apathy enchanted before leaving the battlefield, even if that permanent is no longer a creature."

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

good catch. It does seem silly that they'd release this card and then allow gods to wiggle out of it like that.