I have a question: Say I have her out and control an opponents creature. As Merieke is about to be destroyed, and I blink the creature out, will it be destroyed upon returning?
Posted By:
StormCrows4Tots
(11/7/2012 1:23:37 PM)
Rubinia Soulsinger's descendant?
Posted By:
Arachnos
(1/17/2013 2:25:33 PM)
If I tap her to gain control of a creature but flicker her in response to my tap, she then leaves play and comes back before the gain control ability resolves. So what happens? Do you permanently gain control of the creature? Because i think technically you treat the now flickered merieke as a new creature but I still don't know what happens.
Posted By:
justyray
(5/2/2013 10:17:39 PM)
@justyray: the creature will become destroyed. When you tap her to activate her ability, the ability goes onto the stack. You respond to the ability with something like cloudshift targeting her, cloudshift resolves, she flickers, puts her leaves play trigger onto the stack. The leaves play trigger resolves and destroys the creature. Finally, the tap ability resolves and does nothing. It's like the classic oblivion ring trick.
Once the tap ability has resolved, if you cloudshift the creature you steal (not Merieke), then you get to keep it permanently. If you Ghostly Flicker both of them (as someone else in the comments suggested) then you get to keep the creature and you get to use Merieke again.
Posted By:
adrian.malacoda
(5/3/2013 5:42:28 PM)
Combo with Thornbite Staff and destroy all the creatures for the price of one.
Posted By:
Raszero
(5/27/2013 4:09:52 PM)
Oh, you just attacked with Emarkul, your only creature leaving me at 1 life and only three lands? I cast Merieke Ri Berit. Go ahead, take your turn, I DARE YOU.
Posted By:
EdgarPoeAllen
(7/30/2013 1:35:04 PM)
Busted General, at 3 mana she waits for targets to hit the table, there's tons of ways to untap her. Even with greens mana ramp I think she is better than Rubinia (I like rubinia too though) just because Merike is always waiting for the good stuff to come out.
Run with Adarkar Valkryie and Avacyn, Angel of Hope to keep what you take, and Indtruder Alarm can be total lols.
cheers
Posted By:
Pontiac
(11/7/2013 1:33:36 PM)
@Stormcrows4Tots: it depends on how you're blinking it out. If you used Cloudshift or Flicker or something like that, they resolve, the creature comes back right after they resolve. Since Merieke's triggered ability is still on the stack, when it resolves the creature dies. If you used Turn to Mist, or Nephalia Smuggler, or something like that, they resolve, the creature gets exiled, the triggered ability resolves, and sees no creature to kill. At the end of the turn, the creature comes back under the control of the player the blink card says it does. (some of them say 'owner's control' and some say 'your control')
@Justyray: This is a similar situation, and it again depends on what cards you use. If your blink card returns to the battlefield immediately (with a 'then' statement), adrian.malacoda is correct. Since her {T} ability resolves after she blinks, the blink effect hasn't done anything. Merieke... (see all)
Posted By:
Aremath
(2/15/2014 1:36:48 PM)
omg, once you steal Avacyn, Angel of Hope, (or have one of your own in the deck and out), you can steal EVERYTHING and untap her and KEEP EVERYTHING!!!
Posted By:
ToAsTy42o
(5/12/2014 11:11:35 PM)