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Title: Exiled primordial hydra returning
Post by: Iamjohnnybutt on June 13, 2013, 03:38:27 PM
If my opponent plays {fiend hunter} and exiles my {primordial hydra}, then fiend hunter dies an brings my primordial hydra back, if in that instant he comes back, could I cast {hunger of the howlpack}, or {bioshift}, being as they are both instants, and they have priority, to either add or move counters onto primordial hydra and result in it not dying?
Title: Re: Exiled primordial hydra returning
Post by: Keyeto on June 13, 2013, 03:52:19 PM
Those cards require a creature to be on the battlefield (obviously, but there is a point to this). As soon as the Hydra hits the battlefield, it dies because of a state based action. State based actions do not use the stack, and cannot be responded to. I'm afraid the Hydra won't make it.
Title: Re: Exiled primordial hydra returning
Post by: Gorzo on June 13, 2013, 04:17:51 PM
The only way to save the hydra is if you have a static effect on the board before the hydra returns that would improve it's toughness as it enters the battlefield.  {Veteran Armorer}, for example.
Title: Re: Exiled primordial hydra returning
Post by: Crisys on June 13, 2013, 05:08:09 PM
Or  {Master Biomancer} if I'm
Not mistaken since creatures enter with a minimum or 2 +1/+1 counters on them
Title: Re: Exiled primordial hydra returning
Post by: Destore117 on June 13, 2013, 08:22:55 PM
I always thought when cards exiled and returned they returned to play in the same condition as when they left unless the card states otherwise :/
Title: Re: Exiled primordial hydra returning
Post by: Paraluke on June 13, 2013, 08:24:04 PM
Exiled creatures "return" as new creatures unless stated otherwise.
Title: Re: Exiled primordial hydra returning
Post by: Destore117 on June 13, 2013, 08:46:18 PM
Quote from: Paraluke on June 13, 2013, 08:24:04 PM
Exiled creatures "return" as new creatures unless stated otherwise.
Alrighty