Does exiling a creature nullify it's death ability?
If someone exiles my carrier thrull from the battlefield, do I get my 1/1 scion?
From my understanding, the exile is essentially a black hole stealing my character, nullifying its death ability, because it didn't so much die, as cease to exist? Using yu-gi-oh rules as my basis
The rules define the term "dies" as "goes to the graveyard from the battlefield". If the card goes to a zone other than the graveyard, like the exile zone, then it didn't die.
If your Thrall is exiled, you don't get the scion token; the event that triggers the Thrall's ability didn't happen.
EDIT: the relevant rule 700.4. The term dies means "is put into a graveyard from the battlefield."
If the ability is a dies ability like that on Carrier Thrall then you are correct that it will not fire if a the thrall is sent to the exile zone from the battlefield instead of the graveyard.
This is because 'dies' is used as short hand for leaves the battlefield and goes to the graveyard. It however will not prevent any ability that does not care about where the creature ends up like the second triggered ability on Admonition Angel.
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If someone exiles my carrier thrull from the battlefield, do I get my 1/1 scion?
From my understanding, the exile is essentially a black hole stealing my character, nullifying its death ability, because it didn't so much die, as cease to exist? Using yu-gi-oh rules as my basis
The rules define the term "dies" as "goes to the graveyard from the battlefield". If the card goes to a zone other than the graveyard, like the exile zone, then it didn't die.
If your Thrall is exiled, you don't get the scion token; the event that triggers the Thrall's ability didn't happen.
EDIT: the relevant rule
700.4. The term dies means "is put into a graveyard from the battlefield."
This is because 'dies' is used as short hand for leaves the battlefield and goes to the graveyard. It however will not prevent any ability that does not care about where the creature ends up like the second triggered ability on Admonition Angel.
- H.L Mencken
I Became insane with long Intervals of horrible Sanity
All Religion, my friend is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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