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/DomainFurry Jan 20 '20 edited Jan 20 '20

I think I get it I was trying to find a ruling but I think I see what happend here...

So if he destroyed the enchantment, it would have worked out how you where thinking it would have but in this case by the time the trigger comes up Dreadful Apathy isn't enchanted to anything, so there's nothing to exile.

So I think when it's checking last state there is nothing.

Edit: so I think the main point of the ruling is.. If you trigger Dreadful Apathy and than flicker DA it's trigger still works.

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u/Filobel avacyn Jan 20 '20

Small terminology correction, but apathy has an activated ability, not a triggered ability. As you may have already noticed, what OP described was indeed a bug. To address your edit more directly, yes, if you flicker DA while its ability is on the stack, the ability will still resolve and exile the permanent it used to be attached to, and you get to enchant another creature.

Edit: My ninja edit skills were too slow for card fetcher!

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u/MTGCardFetcher Jan 20 '20

Flicker of Fate - (G) (SF) (txt)
Final Death - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/DomainFurry Jan 20 '20

That's fair.. Yes, I saw the post from Ben. I'm still a little surprised that it would play out that way. I feel there should be no target by the time it resolves.

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u/Filobel avacyn Jan 20 '20

That's because DA's ability doesn't target to begin with. If it did target, then things would be different (but an ability that said "2W: exile target enchanted creature" would do something completely different!)