Eternal Witness and Oath of Druids

[John Cox]

So I just want to understand the timing on this,
I activate oath, the only creature in my deck is eternal witness. I mill my deck, eternal witness comes out and if I understand correctly I get to put a card (say Yawgmoth's will or for the purpose of the last question in this post some instant like ancestral recall ) into my hand. I've also heard that if I have a gaea's blessing enter my graveyard from oath I can put that into my hand and ignore the reshuffle effect(is this right?). Could I use the witness to put a card already in my graveyard into my hand before the mill, then put a gaea's blessing into my graveyard and shuffle my deck? ( I see no reason I can't do this)
How would this work with a snapcaster mage in place of witness. Specifically the last question.

[Koby]

I am going to assume the following scenario occurs, since it's a bit unclear:

Oath triggers.
Eternal Witness / Snapcaster Mage is the creature that shows up, and placed on the battlefield.
Gaea's Blessing is put into the graveyard.

Under this scenario, both would trigger. Since you are the controller of both triggers, you can select the order they are put onto the stack.

If you place the Blessing trigger first, then the Witness/SCM trigger last, you would be able to regrow the card before it would get shuffled back into the deck.

[nedleeds]

Yes. This is principle Demon Oath works under. You either flip the Demon before the Walk or a Blessing / Memory's Journey and can tutor the Walk up no matter what.

[John Cox]

I am going to assume the following scenario occurs, since it's a bit unclear:

Oath triggers.
Eternal Witness / Snapcaster Mage is the creature that shows up, and placed on the battlefield.
Gaea's Blessing is put into the graveyard.

Under this scenario, both would trigger. Since you are the controller of both triggers, you can select the order they are put onto the stack.

If you place the Blessing trigger first, then the Witness/SCM trigger last, you would be able to regrow the card before it would get shuffled back into the deck.

Awesome, thanks! I was very unclear about the triggers.


Yes. This is principle Demon Oath works under. You either flip the Demon before the Walk or a Blessing / Memory's Journey and can tutor the Walk up no matter what.

I totally forgot about that deck despite having Japanese and Korean demons sitting in my binder, -thank you.