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CardName: Roots of Nourishing Cost: G Type: Creature - Plant Pow/Tgh: 0/1 Rules Text: *Compost* - {2}{G}, tap an untapped creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter onto another target creature. You may activate this ability from your graveyard once per turn. If you do, exile Roots of Nourishing. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Design Dump Common |
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I have a theory. I was wondering "Why not make exiling the card part of the cost?". And while I was wondering that I developed this wild hypothesis that you think this ability can be activated from the battlefield. But it can't. Abilities that state they can be activated from a specific zone (explicitly or implicitly) cannot be activated from another zone you usually would activate that ability from (i. e. the battlefield) - same for triggered abilities.
If my wild hypothesis is correct, the wording could get quite out of hand, but you can do it by stating explicitly all zones the ability can be activated from.
Compare the triggered ability of Firemane Angel.
to SecretInfiltrator's point, you'd probably have to do it as two separate abilities, akin to M15's Souls cycle e.g. Soul of Innistrad, Soul of New Phyrexia.
The Soul cycle is actually the reason I created this ability word. Thinking about this now, after just having looked over the criticism for Synchronize, I could have compost be a keyword that's separate from the actual activated ability instead. "You may activate this card's activated abilities from the graveyard once per turn. If you do, exile it."