Pull from eternity / Surgical extraction interaction

[tewatate]

I have a Worldgorger Dragon in my graveyard, and an Animate Dead in hand. I cast Animate dead, targeting Worldgorger Dragon. In response to Animate dead, my opponent plays Surgical Extraction on the dragon. I let it resolve, and before Animate Dead resolves, I cast Pull From Eternity targeting the exiled Dragon, returning it in my graveyard.

The question is: will Animate Dead fizzle or not? It might fizzle because an exiled card (the dragon) looses all memory of any prior actions when it returns to play.

[MaximumC]

I have a Worldgorger Dragon in my graveyard, and an Animate Dead in hand. I cast Animate dead, targeting Worldgorger Dragon. In response to Animate dead, my opponent plays Surgical Extraction on the dragon. I let it resolve, and before Animate Dead resolves, I cast Pull From Eternity targeting the exiled Dragon, returning it in my graveyard.

The question is: will Animate Dead fizzle or not? It might fizzle because an exiled card (the dragon) looses all memory of any prior actions when it returns to play.

Yes, if a target blinks before the spell resolves, the spell fizzles. That's how Eldrazi Displacer protects creatures from removal.

[PirateKing]

Yeah Animate Dead targets, so any graveyard molestation will cause it to not have a valid target and fizzle. Stuff like Exhume would work since it doesn't have a target, but since we're talking about Worldgorger Dragon here, I can only assume you are an upstanding gentleman with no nefarious game breaking interaction whatsoever, so there's no particular importance on Animate Dead specifically.

[tewatate]

thanks guys.