AI DraftFeb 26, 2026
Displacer Kitten + Sensei's Divining Top + The Reality Chip
Overview
If The Reality Chip is attached to a creature, you may cast spells from the top of your library using that ability; casting such a noncreature spell is a normal cast (). That cast will trigger Displacer Kitten’s Avoidance trigger. You may target Sensei’s Divining Top or The Reality Chip (or another nonland permanent) with that triggered ability. You can respond to the triggered ability (or to the cast) by activating Sensei’s Divining Top’s 
ability; that ability may be activated in response to Top’s other ability as noted in Ruling [2016-06-08]. If Top is moved off the battlefield (for example, by resolving its own ability that puts it on top of your library) before the Kitten trigger resolves, Top is an illegal target and the exile part of the Kitten trigger can’t affect it (). If the Kitten trigger resolves and exiles The Reality Chip while it is attached, the Chip will be exiled and then returned as a new object (it won’t be attached when it returns) per Ruling [2022-06-10]; that will prevent future casts from the top until it’s attached again, but it does not retroactively affect the spell you already cast from the top per Ruling [2022-02-18].
ability; that ability may be activated in response to Top’s other ability as noted in Ruling [2016-06-08]. If Top is moved off the battlefield (for example, by resolving its own ability that puts it on top of your library) before the Kitten trigger resolves, Top is an illegal target and the exile part of the Kitten trigger can’t affect it (). If the Kitten trigger resolves and exiles The Reality Chip while it is attached, the Chip will be exiled and then returned as a new object (it won’t be attached when it returns) per Ruling [2022-06-10]; that will prevent future casts from the top until it’s attached again, but it does not retroactively affect the spell you already cast from the top per Ruling [2022-02-18].Step 1
Start with The Reality Chip attached to one of your creatures, Sensei's Divining Top on the battlefield, and Displacer Kitten on the battlefield.
Step 2
You use The Reality Chip’s attached-to-a-creature permission to cast a noncreature spell from the top of your library; that is a normal cast and follows the casting steps in .
Step 3
Casting that noncreature spell causes Displacer Kitten’s triggered ability to trigger and be put on the stack (it reads “Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control”).
Step 4
After the trigger is on the stack and before it resolves, players receive priority and may respond; you (or an opponent) may activate Sensei’s Divining Top’s ability in response to the Kitten trigger (allowed as a normal activated ability), and per Ruling [2016-06-08] you may chain Top’s abilities in the ways described.
ability in response to the Kitten trigger (allowed as a normal activated ability), and per Ruling [2016-06-08] you may chain Top’s abilities in the ways described.Step 5
If Sensei’s Divining Top’s resolves before the Kitten trigger resolves, you draw a card and then put the Top on top of your library (Top moves from battlefield to library top).
resolves before the Kitten trigger resolves, you draw a card and then put the Top on top of your library (Top moves from battlefield to library top).Step 6
When Displacer Kitten’s triggered ability tries to resolve it attempts to exile the chosen target. If the chosen target (for example, Top) is no longer on the battlefield and thus isn’t in the same zone it was in when targeted, it is an illegal target and the exile part can’t affect it per .
Step 7
If instead the Kitten trigger successfully exiles The Reality Chip (while it’s attached), the Kitten ability then returns that card to the battlefield. The returned Chip is a new object and will not be attached when it returns (Ruling [2022-06-10]).
Step 8
Because the spell you already cast from the top was put on the stack and cast before the Kitten trigger resolved, the spell remains legally cast and will resolve normally even if the Chip becomes unattached afterward (Ruling [2022-02-18]).
Resolution
Casting a noncreature spell from the top of your library with The Reality Chip is a normal cast (); Displacer Kitten will trigger. You can respond to the trigger with Top’s to draw and put Top on top of your library (Ruling [2016-06-08]). If Top is no longer on the battlefield when the Kitten trigger resolves, it is an illegal target and the exile/return won’t affect it (). If Kitten exhiles The Reality Chip and returns it, it returns as a new, unattached object (Ruling [2022-06-10]) and thus will no longer let you cast from the top until it’s attached again, but that does not change the fact that the spell you already cast from the top was legally cast and will resolve (Ruling [2022-02-18]).
to draw and put Top on top of your library (Ruling [2016-06-08]). If Top is no longer on the battlefield when the Kitten trigger resolves, it is an illegal target and the exile/return won’t affect it (). If Kitten exhiles The Reality Chip and returns it, it returns as a new, unattached object (Ruling [2022-06-10]) and thus will no longer let you cast from the top until it’s attached again, but that does not change the fact that the spell you already cast from the top was legally cast and will resolve (Ruling [2022-02-18]).Feedback