Overwhelming Splendor vs Serra's Emissary
Overwhelming Splendor vs Serra's Emissary. My opponent had overwhelming splendor on the battlefield and I played Serra's Emissary, and didn't get to choose anything to gain protection from, but the text says "as it enters the battlefield", not when it enters the battlefield so I should have been able to choose enchantment and negate it's effects.
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Rezzahan#77802 commented
First, choosing enchantment would do nothing to negate the effect of Overwhelming Splendor on the Emissary, since nothing that enchantment does is stopped by protection.
Second, when looking for applicable ETB replacement effects, the game looks at how the object would look like on the battlefield, and takes into account continuous effects, that would apply to it. So since Overwhelming Splendor takes away all of the Emissary's abilities when on the field, it doesn't get its replacement effect.