This feels like a dumb question, but I’m now-ish still, and playing my Ashling, the Limitless commander precon and am using command tower. Ashling costs one red mana and two colorless, so to me that seems like its color identity to me. But, would its ability that allows for it to be a 5 color commander but part of that identity?
I made a post last night in the regular mtg subreddit, and I got a lot of explanations that missed part of what I was asking. I’m hoping posting something here might get me the clarification.
During a game I was playing last night, Player A had “Consuming Aberrations” on their battlefield with P/T of 39/39, and Player B placed “Eye of Nidhogg” on it, making it a 4/2 black dragon.
My pod determined that, due to EoN not taking away abilities, that the two values of P/T then add together, like they would if there were counters on the original card.
The layers, timing, “it says it on the card” comments have been made, but it hasn’t been made clear how a card that doesn’t take away abilities, is taking away an ability. I was the only one in my group that thought it would be a 4/2, but nothing I show my group is getting them to see why. This is their biggest setback.
We read the rules on the wizards website and that has also been their argument because they have still interpreted that wrong and I can’t sway them.
I am currently playing a game of magic where Eye of Nidhogg was placed on Consuming Aberrations, the graveyard count at the time was 39. My understanding was that EoN would set the power and toughness to 4/2, overriding the “power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards,” however, my group is quoting the MTG site saying it doesn’t state a “base P/T” so it’s added together. Please help me settle this, provided are the cards and the rulings.