In response to the first ability being activated, you could do something like Naturalize your own Journey. That resolves like this:
1. Naturalize resolves first, while the Journey's first ability is on the stack
2. Journey's second ability goes onto the stack, which also resolves before the first ability. Nothing is returned to the battlefield, as nothing has been removed yet.
3. The first ability will finally resolve, removing the creature from the game forever.
This is what the oracle text is trying to say, albeit in its commonly thick-languaged sort of way.
Cool trick and all, but there are a lot more efficient ways to do it. Path to Exile = herp derp derp.
Posted By:
MrBarrelRoll
(6/26/2010 8:40:59 PM)
@xrockfan
Of course it can be countered, it hasn't entered the battlefield when you play your counterspell so it goes directly to graveyard, does not pass go, does not collect its triggered ability.
Posted By:
NatasAlmighty
(9/2/2010 10:16:18 AM)
Emrakul's just a small-town girl.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(12/28/2010 11:29:03 AM)
combo with temporal adept to make a 5mana remove target creature from the game once a turn engine :)
Posted By:
thaviel
(11/11/2010 12:42:04 AM)
@blindthrall:
That is absolutely positively FALSE.
What is TRUE, however, is that it can get around the particular protection ability of Emrakul because he's protected from spells, but Journey to Nowhere and O-Ring aren't doing their funny business while they're spells, but rather while they're permanents.
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(9/12/2010 10:08:21 PM)
Holy shit, gets rid of Emrakul. nuf said
Posted By:
wxnbvq1
(10/25/2010 2:59:15 PM)
Talking about going nowhere fast.
Posted By:
divine_exodus
(1/18/2011 7:47:17 PM)
If they keep printing Enchantments this powerful Black and Blue are going to have to have some way of dealing with them. It's annoying to play black or blue, and just have to sit there and watch your creatures and permanents vanish to a color that's somehow gained more creature removal then black over the last two years.
Posted By:
Omniance
(9/28/2009 10:38:46 PM)
White is the color of creature removal now, NOT black. This stinks.
Posted By:
True_Mumin
(9/26/2009 12:43:43 PM)
Yeah it does look a little like the card AWOL. Haha.
But this card ability is irritating. =X
Posted By:
JosirisDavid
(9/26/2009 4:01:21 AM)