Evoke Question

blazingwolf7 · Joined: 03 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

If a creature I control is in my graveyard and has Evoke, can I play it from my graveyard using the evoke cost and then sacrifice it?

Circa · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 228

No. If something does specifically say it can be played from the graveyard, then it can't be.

A good rule of thumb.

Vecc · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 20

blamin8or · Joined: 31 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

rofl

Ggerg · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 487

Evoke is just an alternate cost to play a spell. when "Mulldrifter" is in your hand, you play play it for either 4U or 2U. If you play it for 2U, when it comes into play, it has the triggered ability "sacrifice this"

Thorns · Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 862 Location: Rath

Did you mean Unearth?

Carnubak · Joined: 21 Jul 2008 Posts: 30

Blazingwolf, I think your question was not clear enough, since the Evoke mechanic has nothing to do with cards in graveyards, it's only an alternate cost for certain creature cards.
As such, unless you have some active effect that allows you to play cards from your graveyard as if they were in your hand (such as that created by a Yawgmoth's Will), you cannot play cards with Evoke from your graveyard.
If you can clarify what you meant, we might be able to help you out.

blazingwolf7 · Joined: 03 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

Thanks for all the replies XD, Naw it's just because someone I was playing against had a kelphie/haakon deck and kept evoking all his creatures from the graveyard saying that evoke applied to his graveyard creatures too even though he had nothing out =/

Carnubak · Joined: 21 Jul 2008 Posts: 30

Well, if he has a Haakon, Stromgald Scourge in play, he can play Knight cards from his graveyard as if they were on his hand. This includes playing them with alternate costs, like Evoke.
If he's not in play, though, your opponent cannot play those cards in such fashion.
Take into account that, while only cards with the subtype Knight can be played through Haakon, cards with the Changeling ability have all creature types in all game zones, thus he could infinitely recur, for instance, a Nameless Inversion or a Crib Swap.