Local Enchantments

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Hello.

From the comprehensive rules....

212.4c A global enchantment has the word "enchantment" on its type line.
Local enchantments use the word "enchant" on their type line, followed by an
identifier that defines the characteristics of the permanent or player that
it can enchant. If a local enchantment's type line includes more than one
word after "enchant," the enchanted permanent or player must match each of
those words.

Example: An enchant artifact can enchant only artifact permanents. An
enchant artifact creature can enchant only artifact creature permanents. An
enchant player can enchant only a player. An enchant Swamp can enchant only
a Swamp permanent

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To me this seems that Steal Artifact can only enchant "pure" Artifacts...and
not Artifact Creatures...If this is so, we've been playing this card wrong
for ages as well as many others. Can someone clarify this issue.

 

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"Jimmy Wong" <j4389130@telus.net> writes:
> From the comprehensive rules....
> 212.4c A global enchantment has the word "enchantment" on its type line.
> Local enchantments use the word "enchant" on their type line, followed by an
> identifier that defines the characteristics of the permanent or player that
> it can enchant. If a local enchantment's type line includes more than one
> word after "enchant," the enchanted permanent or player must match each of
> those words.
>
> Example: An enchant artifact can enchant only artifact permanents. An
> enchant artifact creature can enchant only artifact creature permanents. An
> enchant player can enchant only a player. An enchant Swamp can enchant only
> a Swamp permanent
>
> ...
>
> To me this seems that Steal Artifact can only enchant "pure" Artifacts...and
> not Artifact Creatures...If this is so, we've been playing this card wrong
> for ages as well as many others. Can someone clarify this issue.

Not quite. An Enchant Artifact can enchant only Artifact
permanents. An Artifact Land or Artifact Creature is still an Artifact
permanent, and thus can be enchanted by an Enchant Artifact.

If you have an Enchant Artifact Creature, then the enchantee must be
both an artifact and a creature. It can be other things as well.

Hopefully that'll clear things up some. Please post again if you have
any more questions.

--
Peter C.
"In a display of perverse brilliance, Carl the repairman mistakes a
room humidifier for a mid-range computer but manages to tie it into
the network anyway." -- The 5th Wave

 

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Jimmy Wong wrote:

> Hello.
>
> From the comprehensive rules....
>
> 212.4c A global enchantment has the word "enchantment" on its type line.
> Local enchantments use the word "enchant" on their type line, followed by
> an identifier that defines the characteristics of the permanent or player
> that it can enchant. If a local enchantment's type line includes more than
> one word after "enchant," the enchanted permanent or player must match
> each of those words.
>
> Example: An enchant artifact can enchant only artifact permanents. An
> enchant artifact creature can enchant only artifact creature permanents.
> An enchant player can enchant only a player. An enchant Swamp can enchant
> only a Swamp permanent
>
> ...
>
> To me this seems that Steal Artifact can only enchant "pure"
> Artifacts...and not Artifact Creatures...If this is so, we've been playing
> this card wrong for ages as well as many others. Can someone clarify this
> issue.

You're reading too much into it. When it says "an enchant artifact can
enchant only artifact permanents," that *includes* artifact creature
permanents, because artifact creature permanents *are* artifact permanents
(they're also creature permanents, so they can be hit with enchant
creatures).

--
Christopher Mattern

"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"

 

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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:15:30 GMT, Jimmy Wong <j4389130@telus.net> wrote:
>212.4c A global enchantment has the word "enchantment" on its type line.
>Local enchantments use the word "enchant" on their type line, followed by an
>identifier that defines the characteristics of the permanent or player that
>it can enchant. If a local enchantment's type line includes more than one
>word after "enchant," the enchanted permanent or player must match each of
>those words.
>
>Example: An enchant artifact can enchant only artifact permanents. An
>enchant artifact creature can enchant only artifact creature permanents. An
>enchant player can enchant only a player. An enchant Swamp can enchant only
>a Swamp permanent
>
>To me this seems that Steal Artifact can only enchant "pure" Artifacts...and
>not Artifact Creatures...If this is so, we've been playing this card wrong
>for ages as well as many others. Can someone clarify this issue.

No, that's not the case. If it says "Enchant Artifact" it can enchant anything
that's an artifact; it doesn't care what else it might be also. If it says
"Enchant Artifact Creature", it can enchant anything that's both an artifact
AND a creature; it doesn't care whether it's also a land or an enchantment or
a swamp or red, etc. The typeline only looks for what it says it looks for,
not for anything else.

Dave
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