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Legendary Enchantment Artifact Rare
Creatures you control have lifelink.
2{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
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So the way I read "if it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else" is a replacement effect that sends it to exile" is that if you have a card that blinks a creature (exile a creature and return it to the battlefield) - or if your creature blinks itself (aetherling or obzedat, ghost council in standard) - the replacement effect occurs, but because it sends it to the same zone as previously, you still get the creature back.
Is this a correct interpretation?
tl;dr
If I recur an aetherling with Whip of Erebos then blink it, do I still get it back at end of turn despite the whip's replacement effect?
First things first, every exile cards have their own exile conditions and every abilities goes on the stack.
1. Obz on GY.
2. Use Whip return to battlefield effect.
3. Obz enters the battlefield, your opponent loses 2 life, you gain 2.
4. Obz survives till end step, his ability triggers,
5. Whip's trigger goes on the stack.
6. You decide which effects goes first. If you choose Obz over whip, then it's not the same creature when exiled.
7. Whip's effect becomes null.
8. Obz's trigger activates and comes back into play.
It should be the same for Aetherling since you can blink him whenever.
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The replacement effect specifies "instead of anywhere else", so it won't try to replace an event that would move the card to exile anyway. Whip of Erebos won't interfere with Obzedat's or Aetherling's self-blinking (or any "exile" blinking, for that matter).
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whip of Erebos
Legendary Enchantment Artifact Rare
Creatures you control have lifelink.
2{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
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So the way I read "if it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else" is a replacement effect that sends it to exile" is that if you have a card that blinks a creature (exile a creature and return it to the battlefield) - or if your creature blinks itself (aetherling or obzedat, ghost council in standard) - the replacement effect occurs, but because it sends it to the same zone as previously, you still get the creature back.
Is this a correct interpretation?
tl;dr
If I recur an aetherling with Whip of Erebos then blink it, do I still get it back at end of turn despite the whip's replacement effect?
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1. Obz on GY.
2. Use Whip return to battlefield effect.
3. Obz enters the battlefield, your opponent loses 2 life, you gain 2.
4. Obz survives till end step, his ability triggers,
5. Whip's trigger goes on the stack.
6. You decide which effects goes first. If you choose Obz over whip, then it's not the same creature when exiled.
7. Whip's effect becomes null.
8. Obz's trigger activates and comes back into play.
It should be the same for Aetherling since you can blink him whenever.
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