overwhelming splendor not working properly
overwhelming splendor is not turning off all passive creature abilities.
cards like corsair of cruphix still gives all land types to my opponents land cards for example. the way overwhelming splendor is worded =, basically all text on creature cards sholud be ignored.
aditionally the card says the enchanted player can't activate abilities(besides mana abilities) i am assuming that this means they cant use abilities of lands, enchantments, planeswalkers...
every time i olay it, my opponent can still use planeswalker abilities
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Brot2#76689 commented
The answer you received is pretty condescending, but the person still meant the correct thing. First, they were wrong in telling you Courser of Kruphix was not on Arena. Of course it is on the Arena and has been for a long time. However, the card you mean actually is Dryad of the Ilysian Grove, as the Courser doesn't have an effect that gives all lands every land type.
Then the person who answered before gave the standard-magic-know-it-all-answer of "read the card, hurrdurr" without thinking about whether or not reading the card was actually the problem. You just mixed up two similar looking green enchantment cards with similar effects and similar mana costs. It didn't have anything to do with the typical "player not reading cards and then misplaying/talking bs" we all like to nag at.
Regarding layers: So in order to resolve things in a certain order, card effects are categorized into 7 layers and the 7th layer also has several sub-layers. Effects in layer 1 happen first, then the ones in layer 2, 3, 4, etc. Effects that change types (as the Dryad does with lands) fall into layer 4, Overwhelming Splendor's effect falls into the category of layer 6. So effects in layer 4 still get to happen before effects in layer 6 get to happen. This means, the Dryad grants the effect before Overwhelming Splendor could ever prohibit its effect, simply because Splendor's effect classifies as a higher layer that only gets to happen later.
In short: no. It's not a bug or anything, it's correct how the Arena does it.
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[Deleted User] commented
2 things here, layers and reading the card
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove (Courser of Kruphix is not in Magic Arena) grants lands all Basic types in layer 4. It then loses all abilities in layer 6.
Overwhelming Splendor only allows the player to activate mana abilities (eg tapping lands/creatures to create mana) and loyalty abilities (Planeswalkers)