Hi everyone, I hope you can help me with the following:
I had a Umezawa's Jitte with one counter attached to my creature. I removed the counter in order to give my creature +2/+2, and my opponent responded with a Disenchant targeting my Jitte. So the Disenchant resolves first, destroying my Jitte. The question then becomes what will happen now, and we checked the Gathererer rulings, only to become even more confused:
One ruling says: If the Jitte leaves the battlefield after the “+2/+2” mode is announced but before it resolves, the bonus is given to the creature that was most recently equipped once the ability resolves.
Another ruling says: Choosing the “Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn” mode does nothing if the Jitte isn’t equipped to a creature when the ability resolves.
But are not these two just direct contradictions? Will the ability "do nothing" as in the second ruling, or will it "give the bonus to the creature that it was most recently equipped to" as in the first ruling ???
The first ruling is the one applicable to your scenario. The other is for when the Jitte is on the battlefield but not equipped at the time the ability resolves (which can happen if the creature gets protection from artifacts in response, for example). In your scenario the Jitte is gone, so last known information (LKI) is used, and its LKI includes it being attached to the creature. In the second ruling, the Jitte is still around but no equipped creature exists, so the ability has no information about any creature to receive the +2/+2 and does nothing. LKI doesn't come into play as current information is available due to the Jitte still existing.
Thank you Rezzahan, so now I understand! I did not notice that for the second ruling, the Jitte is still on the battlefield, whereas for the first, it is not anymore on the battlefield. Thank you so much for the clarification
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I had a Umezawa's Jitte with one counter attached to my creature. I removed the counter in order to give my creature +2/+2, and my opponent responded with a Disenchant targeting my Jitte. So the Disenchant resolves first, destroying my Jitte. The question then becomes what will happen now, and we checked the Gathererer rulings, only to become even more confused:
One ruling says: If the Jitte leaves the battlefield after the “+2/+2” mode is announced but before it resolves, the bonus is given to the creature that was most recently equipped once the ability resolves.
Another ruling says: Choosing the “Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn” mode does nothing if the Jitte isn’t equipped to a creature when the ability resolves.
But are not these two just direct contradictions? Will the ability "do nothing" as in the second ruling, or will it "give the bonus to the creature that it was most recently equipped to" as in the first ruling ???
Help is highly appreciated!
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