Graveyard Gymnastics
Asked by MoFi 7 years ago
Hello!
On the battlefield, I have Necrotic Ooze.
In my graveyard, I have Burnished Hart, Pack Rat and Scrapheap Scrounger.
I use Pack Rat's ability to make a copy of Necrotic Ooze.
I sacrifice the original Necrotic Ooze using Burnished Hart's ability and put out two land cards.
Now......can I use Scrapheap Scrounger's ability with the copy of Necrotic Ooze to put the original Necrotic Ooze back out onto the battlefield? According to the rulings, Scrapheap Scrounger's ability would translate to " 1B: Exile another creature card from your graveyard: Return Necrotic Ooze from your graveyard to the battlefield." Both the token copy and the original are called Necrotic Ooze so......yes?
(Although it's not important, just to make it cooler, let's say the card I would be discarding and then exiling was Eternal Scourge.)
To further clarify:
The answer is no, because despite the fact that the ability would technically be on the copy of Necrotic Ooze, the wording is "Exile another creature card from your graveyard..." which indicates that this ability is to be used while this card is in the graveyard, but you can't exile this card, but another creature card, to get the desired effect.
It doesn't matter that both the copy of Necrotic Ooze in play and the Necrotic Ooze creature card in your graveyard are both named Necrotic Ooze, because as touched on by chosenone124 above, cards can refer to other cards in their text, but their wording matters.
Scraphead Scrounger is naming Scraphead Scrounger in its ability simply because it is referring to itself. If it was meant to be interpreted as any card name Scraphead Scrounger than it would've said "Return a card named Scraphead Scrounger from your graveyard to the battlefield."
March 24, 2017 12:59 p.m.
It's understood that Necrotic Ooze must be on the battlefield and not in the graveyard to use activated abilities. I wasn't sure if was actually both...but the whole thing clearly falls down with the missing "Return A card named..." anyway. Thank you.
chosenone124 says... #1
Necrotic Ooze does not have any activated abilities in the graveyard. It's continuous ability only applies when it is on the field.
On the battlefield, your Ooze would have Pack Rat's clone ability, Burnished Hart's sacrifice ability (and Scrapheap Scrounger's unactivatable ability)
In the graveyard, it has nothing. So it cannot use Scrapheap's ability.
By the way, the ability of Scrapheap Scrounger only applies to itself, not cards named Scrapheap Scrounger. If you have Necrotic Ooze use Pack Rat's ability, it would create a copy of Necrotic Ooze 4/3 with the activated abilities of cards in the graveyard. A token of Necrotic Ooze with those abilities cannot revive anything
March 24, 2017 12:35 p.m. Edited.