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Q: If my opponent casts his commander when I control a Guile" target="blank">Guile, and I Mana Drain" target="blank">Mana Drain his commander, can I cast it?
A: Guile replaces the actual countering with "exile it, then cast it." Even if he moves it to the command zone, since that's the first place it went to, Guile's trigger can still find it and you can cast it.
Can this get clarified? Doesn't the game lose track of an object when it changes zones? Or is this different because Guile already tracks across zones, so it doesn't matter if it goes to the *intended* zone?
Can this get clarified? Doesn't the game lose track of an object when it changes zones? Or is this different because Guile already tracks across zones, so it doesn't matter if it goes to the *intended* zone?
I do not believe guile works this way.
There was a clarification earlier for sisters of stone death here is a link to the post:
basically the spell is never put into the exile zone. Commanders have the option to be put into the command zone instead of the exile. Therefore you couldn't cast it with guile
Sisters of Stone Death doesn't work because it's worded so as to create a linked ability (it refers to "a... card exiled with Sisters of Stone Death"). This specifically requires the card to be in the exile zone, and to be there as a result of Sisters' exile ability:
607.2a If an object has an activated or triggered ability printed on it that instructs a player to exile one or more cards and an ability printed on it that refers either to "the exiled cards" or to cards "exiled with [this object]," these abilities are linked. The second ability refers only to cards in the exile zone that were put there as a result of an instruction to exile them in the first ability.
Guile does not say "the exiled card" or "card exiled with Guile". Thus it's not a linked ability and isn't subject to the above requirements. It can track the card to whatever (public) zone it actually ends up in.
I do not believe guile works this way.
There was a clarification earlier for sisters of stone death here is a link to the post:
http://mtgcommander.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10195&p=101099&hilit=+sisters+stone+death&sid=6585a74960eb16b293f0ab88b7ebc08c#p101099
basically the spell is never put into the exile zone. Commanders have the option to be put into the command zone instead of the exile. Therefore you couldn't cast it with guile
Guile does not say "the exiled card" or "card exiled with Guile". Thus it's not a linked ability and isn't subject to the above requirements. It can track the card to whatever (public) zone it actually ends up in.
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