Etrata, Deadly Fugitive's ability doesn't work right
On version 2026.62.20.5586.1310916, macOS.
Etrata, Deadly Fugitive's ability says:
Face-down creatures you control have "(2){U}{B}: Turn this creature face up. If you can't, exile it, then you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
I had a face-down Banishing Light that came from hitting the opponent with Etrata on a prior turn.
I activated the ability on Etrata to exile it and then cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost (Banishing Light).
Instead, the game just put Banishing Light directly onto the battlefield without anything happening.
It did not prompt me to select a target nonland permanent an opponent controls to be exiled by Banishing Light.
The opponent did not have anything on the battlefield that would have prevented the Banishing Light from working. I'm convinced this is a bug.
I've attached the log.
Another time in a previous game, I turned face up a Sheltered By Ghosts (which I'd cloaked from the opponent) using Etrata's ability. I should have been prompted with Ul to select which creature of mine to target with Sheltered, but the game never gave me that option, and the Sheltered By Ghosts spell never even got cast. However it did charge me the mana!
Please fix this, as it is making my investment in four copies of Etrata for a standard deck feel pretty stupid.
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Rezzahan#77802
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As a permanent card Banishing Light CAN be turned face up, so it is not returned to your hand. It did not enter the battlefield, so no trigger.
Same with Sheltered by Ghosts. It is a permanent card and CAN be turned face up. This results in an aura that is not attached to anything and goes to the gravewyard as a state based action. You do not get to attach it to a creature of yours, nor do you get the exile trigger, because it did not enter the battlefield, it was already there.