Let's say my Random Dude is exiled with Oblivion Ring. I play Riftsweeper shuffing my Random Dude back into my library. Later on Oblivion Ring gets destroyed during a board sweep.
I assume nothing happens, but what in the rulebook actually prevents the creature from being pulled out of my library and put back into play?
When you destroy the Oblivion Ring, the LTB trigger will go off, attempting to return the exiled card. It will look in the exile zone, not find it, and the trigger will fizzle because of an invalid target. It will not look for the card in any zone other than the exile zone.
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When a card changes zones, it becomes a new object and forgets any properties it had in any prior zones, so when Oblivion Ring leaves the battlefield, no card has the property of having been exiled by it, so the ability does as much as possible, which is nothing.
Oblivion Ring's second ability doesn't target, and it doesn't fizzle if there's nothing exiled.
Oblivion Ring's second ability doesn't target, and it doesn't fizzle if there's nothing exiled.
Perhaps the exact wording was not correct. However, the point was gotten across.
The card that was exiled no longer exists in the exile zone, therefore, when Oblivion Ring is destroyed, there is nothing to return to the battlefield.
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Currently playing:
Standard: WBRG Aggro-Reanimator Humans GRBW
Modern: UR Twinning RU G Venus Fly Trap G U Artifacts Aggro U
I assume nothing happens, but what in the rulebook actually prevents the creature from being pulled out of my library and put back into play?
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WBRG Aggro-Reanimator Humans GRBW
Modern:
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U Artifacts Aggro U
Legacy:
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Oblivion Ring's second ability doesn't target, and it doesn't fizzle if there's nothing exiled.
Perhaps the exact wording was not correct. However, the point was gotten across.
The card that was exiled no longer exists in the exile zone, therefore, when Oblivion Ring is destroyed, there is nothing to return to the battlefield.
Standard:
WBRG Aggro-Reanimator Humans GRBW
Modern:
UR Twinning RU
G Venus Fly Trap G
U Artifacts Aggro U
Legacy:
B Reanimator B
WU Stoneblade UW
EDH
WBGGhave, Guru of SporesGBW
URGRiku of the Two ReflectionsGRU
WUBRGScion of the Ur-DragonGRBUW
Casual
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