Bug in game
While I was playing on my cell phone, in the historic Brawl format, something happened that I believe was an error.
My opponent had Klothys, God of Destiny in play as a creature with seven or more devotion.
After that I played the Overwhelming Splendor card enchanting my opponent, Creatures enchanted player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 1/1.
The bug happened on my opponent's turn, when he used another card to kill another of his creatures, causing Klothys, God of Destiny to no longer have seven devotion and returning to being an enchantment and recovering its abilities.
In my understanding, this should not happen, because as he was in the condition of a creature and without any abilities, the ability to be or not a creature with devotion seven would not be active.
Is my thinking correct?
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Rezzahan#77802 commented
Not a bug. This is about the layer system. Type granting and losing happens in layer 4, while ability granting and losing happens in layer 6. That means, that Klothys will turn into a noncreature before that ability gets removed. Since it is no longer a creature when layer 6 effects are applied, it keeps its abilities.