So I know it was just spoiled, but how does Gonti, Lord of Luxury deal with cards that exile themselves on resolution? For instance, Time Reversal, or a variety of cards that let you take an extra turn. Will I be able to cast Time Reversal over and over if it's the card I exile?
No. Casting the card moves it from exile to the stack. Not only does it become a new object with no memory of its past in exile, but Gonti's abilty's duration ends ("for as long as that card remains exiled"). Furthermore, that ability is linked to itself, so only a card exiled by that ability can be cast with it. In essence, no matter where the card ends up in the end, Gonti's business with it is done as soon as you cast the card or it otherwsie leaves exile, even if it returns there later.
Gonti has a single triggered ability which gives you permission to cast the exiled spell for a given duration. That duration is "for as long as that card remains exiled", not "for as long as Gonti is on the battlefield".
If he had been worded with a trigger and a static linked ability (eg, "When ~ enters the battlefield, look... // You may cast cards exiled by ~..."), then having him leave the field would prevent you from casting the exiled card, but that's not the case.
Again, "for as long as the card remains exiled" means that. The triggered ability creates the effect; it's not a separate static ability of Gonti, so it has nothing to do with Gonti staying on the battlefield.
Everything Gonti does (well, apart from having deathtouch) is all one big triggered ability. Part of the ability's effect is to set up a continuous effect that allows you to cast the exiled card. That effect's duration is as long as the card remains exiled. Once created, the effect isn't tied to Gonti's presence in any way.
If it were dependent on Gonti being on the battlefield then it would be templated as a set of linked abilities where one of them was a static ability, i.e. "When Gonti enters the battlefield ... ... exile a card." and "You may cast cards exiled with Gonti...".
I was playing against my friends Emerge deck this weekend, I cast Gonti & exiled Distended Mindbender, I asked my other friend if I can cast Mindbender with the emerge cost on my own creatures, he was uncertain about that since I would most likely needto cast it for the whole 8 mana.
So yeah, can use the emerge ability on my creatures when I've used Gonti's ability?
Gonti's continuous effect says only "...you may cast it", and not, say, "...you may cast it without paying its mana cost." Therefore, the effect doesn't replace the mana cost or any other alternative to the mana cost (including emerge [C.R. 702.118a]) with its own (review C.R. 117.9; see also C.R. 117.9a). Thus, you may cast the Distended Mindbender card with emerge using Gonti.
I was playing against my friends Emerge deck this weekend, I cast Gonti & exiled Distended Mindbender, I asked my other friend if I can cast Mindbender with the emerge cost on my own creatures, he was uncertain about that since I would most likely needto cast it for the whole 8 mana.
So yeah, can use the emerge ability on my creatures when I've used Gonti's ability?
The first step of casting a spell is putting it on the stack under your control. You thus control it while you pay its costs, and anything the card says speaks to you, so you're able to use Emerge just as if you cast a Mindbender of your own from your hand.
This is no huge deal, but in the future, please post separate questions in their own thread rather than hijacking another thread about the same card, unless your question is a direct follow-up to the thread's previous question and requires that context. Especially if that other thread is old (3 months in this case). This helps make the Rulings forum a better searchable resource. With your question answered, I'm going to lock this thread, as we want to avoid it becoming a repository for other new questions about Gonti. Thank you for your attention!
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In fact you can cast the cards even if Gonti is not on the battlefield. He is very carefully worded to allow that.
I thought it was like Pithing Needle where the Pithing Needle needs to still be in play for the effect to be active.
If Gonti doesn't need to be in play, Black just got a HUGE card.
If he had been worded with a trigger and a static linked ability (eg, "When ~ enters the battlefield, look... // You may cast cards exiled by ~..."), then having him leave the field would prevent you from casting the exiled card, but that's not the case.
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If it were dependent on Gonti being on the battlefield then it would be templated as a set of linked abilities where one of them was a static ability, i.e. "When Gonti enters the battlefield ... ... exile a card." and "You may cast cards exiled with Gonti...".
Gonti's continuous effect says only "...you may cast it", and not, say, "...you may cast it without paying its mana cost." Therefore, the effect doesn't replace the mana cost or any other alternative to the mana cost (including emerge [C.R. 702.118a]) with its own (review C.R. 117.9; see also C.R. 117.9a). Thus, you may cast the Distended Mindbender card with emerge using Gonti.
This is no huge deal, but in the future, please post separate questions in their own thread rather than hijacking another thread about the same card, unless your question is a direct follow-up to the thread's previous question and requires that context. Especially if that other thread is old (3 months in this case). This helps make the Rulings forum a better searchable resource. With your question answered, I'm going to lock this thread, as we want to avoid it becoming a repository for other new questions about Gonti. Thank you for your attention!