The way Sword of the Ages Oracle text reads, leads to believe that for a short moment it goes to the graveyard before exiling itself.
Would this interpretation be correct?
Not... quite, in that it's not a short moment. The sacrifice moves it to the graveyard as a cost. It is there while your opponent and you deliberate on responding to the activation. Later, if the ability resolves, and the Sword is still in the graveyard, it is exiled.
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Not... quite, in that it's not a short moment. The sacrifice moves it to the graveyard as a cost. It is there while your opponent and you deliberate on responding to the activation. Later, if the ability resolves, and the Sword is still in the graveyard, it is exiled.
With that in mind, after activating the Sword can I then, in response(holding priority and all), activate Argivian Archaeologist and return the Sword to my hand?
Would this interpretation be correct?
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With that in mind, after activating the Sword can I then, in response(holding priority and all), activate Argivian Archaeologist and return the Sword to my hand?
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Sweet! Thanks for the quick replies folks.
I think that there's sometimes a tendency to see the "exile" in abilities like Sword of the Ages as a part of the cost.