Colossal Whale

five generic mana one blue mana Creature — WhalePower and toughness5/5

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile target creature defending player controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

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Colossal Whale rulings

2013-07-01
If a creature token is exiled, it ceases to exist. It won't be returned to the battlefield.
2013-07-01
Colossal Whale's triggered ability triggers and resolves during the declare attackers step, before blocking creatures are declared.
2013-07-01
Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners' graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled creature will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist.
2013-07-01
If Colossal Whale leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the target creature won't be exiled.
2013-07-01
In a multiplayer game, if Colossal Whale's owner leaves the game, the exiled card will return to the battlefield. Because the one-shot effect that returns the card isn't an ability that goes on the stack, it won't cease to exist along with the leaving player's spells and abilities on the stack.
2013-07-01
The exiled card returns to the battlefield immediately after Colossal Whale leaves the battlefield. Nothing happens between the two events, including state-based actions. The two creatures aren't on the battlefield at the same time. For example, if the returning creature is a Clone, it can't enter the battlefield as a copy of Colossal Whale.
2013-07-01
Colossal Whale's ability causes a zone change with a duration, a new style of ability that's somewhat reminiscent of older cards like Oblivion Ring. However, unlike Oblivion Ring, cards like Colossal Whale have a single ability that creates two one-shot effects: one that exiles the creature when the ability resolves, and another that returns the exiled card to the battlefield immediately after Colossal Whale leaves the battlefield.

Colossal Whale keyword rules

Landwalk Rule 702.14

Landwalk is a generic term that appears within an object’s rules text as “[type]walk,” where [type] is usually a land type, but it can also be the card type land plus any combination of land types, card types, and/or supertypes.

Landwalk is an evasion ability.

A creature with landwalk can’t be blocked as long as the defending player controls at least one land with the specified land type (as in “islandwalk”), with the specified type or supertype (as in “artifact landwalk”), without the specified type or supertype (as in “nonbasic landwalk”), or with both the specified type or supertype and the specified subtype (as in “snow swampwalk”). (See rule , “Declare Blockers Step.”)

Landwalk abilities don’t “cancel” one another.

Multiple instances of the same kind of landwalk on the same creature are redundant.