If I use Oona, Queen of the Fae's activated ability, and then she is forced to leave the battlefield will her ability still give me tokens?
Asked by misshepeshu 13 years ago
I was playing with my Oona, Queen of the Fae EDH deck, and my friend, in response to me activating her ability and exiling the top four cards of his library, cast Evacuation . My contention was that I'd still get the faerie tokens generated by the ability after Evacuation resolves, since Oona's ability resolved last. However, although my friend agreed that he had to exile the top four cards of his library (which was the first part of the ability), he also argued that the second part of the ability (getting the faerie tokens) could happen only if Oona was on the battlefield because the faerie token production is a static ability tied to Oona herself. I think he's wrong--they're all part of the same activated ability, and as long as he exiles cards of the named color, I get tokens--but I'm not enough of a rules maven to rebut him conclusively. Any insights, O TappedOut Hive Mind?
xeratheenigma says... #2
also the "for each card removed/exiled this way. put a 1/1 blue and black faerie rogue token onto the battlefield." is actually part of her activated ability not a seperate static ability.
December 28, 2010 2:51 p.m.
KrazyCaley says... #3
Seconded. The effect of an already-activated ability does not depend on the continued existence of its source. Oona has no static ability, except for "flying."
December 28, 2010 3:34 p.m.
TimProctor says... #4
That was about one of the dumbest things he could have done.
If he waited til' after the tokens were in play the Evacuation would have killed them.
December 28, 2010 3:35 p.m.
KrazyCaley says... #5
Yeah, it's kind of a silly argument since he could kill the tokens with Evac later anyway. Maybe there was something that had triggered abilities that was relevant.
December 28, 2010 3:39 p.m.
misshepeshu says... #6
Thanks for the answers. Glad to know I'm reading the activated ability correctly. And no, there wasn't anything on the battlefield that would've made playing Evacuation in response to Oona's activation advantageous in some way--it was one of those heat-of-the-moment plays and he forgot about how the stack would resolve until I pointed it out to him.
December 28, 2010 4:13 p.m.
oldnorthstate says... #7
He would have either had to stack Evacuation on TOP of Onna's ability, or cast it post resolution. Once an ability has gone off, I don't think you can interrupt it by responding to one part of the effect before the rest of the ability has been observed.
On those lines, other than something like Trickbind , how should one go about stopping a heinous ability like that of Oona? If it is destined to resolve once the mana is spent, which doesn't go on the stack at all, then what can be done to prevent the effect?
xeratheenigma says... Accepted answer #1
you are correct.
once Oona, Queen of the Fae 's ability is put on the stack it doesn't matter if she leaves the battlefield or not you will get the full effect of her activated ability.
so after Evacuation resolves you will have up to four faerie tokens in play.
hope this helps
December 28, 2010 2:46 p.m.