<p>Deserter's Quarters becomes next to useless.</p>
<p>If someone casts <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Burst%20of%20Energy">Burst of Energy</a> targeting your Deserter's Quarters, it would untap since it's not <em>your untap step</em>. Same thing here.</p>
<p>When in Horizon Boughs, your Deserter's Quarters untaps in the other players' untap steps since you only have the option of not untapping him in <em>your untap step</em>. (The creature held in Deserter's Quarters remains tapped.)</p>
<p>Similarly, the creature held in Deserter's Quarters untaps in your untap step since Deserter's Quarters only prevents it from untapping in <em>its controller's untap step</em>.</p>
<p><a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Horizon%20Boughs">Horizon Boughs</a> makes <a href="http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380397" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Deserter's Quarters</a> really inefficient. At best, you could retap a creature every turn for 6 mana in a two-player game.</p>

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ikegami
<p>In a game of Planechase, suppose we're on <a href="http://magiccards.info/extra/plane/planechase/horizon-boughs-gateway-promo.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Horizon Boughs</a>, which says:</p>
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<p>All permanents untap during each player's untap step.</p>
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<p>I have <a href="http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380397" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Deserter's Quarters</a> out, tapped using its second ability to keep another creature tapped.</p>
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<p>You may choose not to untap Deserter's Quarters during your untap step.</p>
<p>{6}, {T}: Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Deserter's Quarters remains tapped.</p>
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<p>Would this mean I can choose not to untap Deserter's Quarters during the untap step, and keep the other creature tapped, or do both of them untap anyway?</p>

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I've edited your question for clarity. Do you also mean to ask if Deserter's Quarter's target of its activated ability would be untapped?
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I am asking if it has to untap my opponent is saying it has to, but i believe i can choose not to untap it, which means the creature it is keeping tapped will not untap as i am keeping deserter's quarters tapped so that creature cant untap.
Artegar
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Ok, edited a bit more. Does that fit?
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Does Deserter's Quarters get overriden by Horizon Boughs?
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# Does Deserter's Quarters get overriden by Horizon Boughs?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-07-05)

In a game of Planechase, suppose we're on [Horizon Boughs](http://magiccards.info/extra/plane/planechase/horizon-boughs-gateway-promo.html), which says:

> All permanents untap during each player's untap step.

I have [Deserter's Quarters](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380397) out, tapped using its second ability to keep another creature tapped.

> You may choose not to untap Deserter's Quarters during your untap step.
>
> {6}, {T}: Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Deserter's Quarters remains tapped.

Would this mean I can choose not to untap Deserter's Quarters during the untap step, and keep the other creature tapped, or do both of them untap anyway?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I've edited your question for clarity. Do you also mean to ask if Deserter's Quarter's target of its activated ability would be untapped?  
> **username_0**: I am asking if it has to untap my opponent is saying it has to, but i believe i can choose not to untap it, which means the creature it is keeping tapped will not untap as i am keeping deserter's quarters tapped so that creature cant untap.  
> **username_1**: Ok, edited a bit more. Does that fit?  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2014-07-05. Score: 3

Deserter's Quarters becomes next to useless.

If someone casts [Burst of Energy](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Burst%20of%20Energy) targeting your Deserter's Quarters, it would untap since it's not *your untap step*. Same thing here.

When in Horizon Boughs, your Deserter's Quarters untaps in the other players' untap steps since you only have the option of not untapping him in *your untap step*. (The creature held in Deserter's Quarters remains tapped.)

Similarly, the creature held in Deserter's Quarters untaps in your untap step since Deserter's Quarters only prevents it from untapping in *its controller's untap step*.

[Horizon Boughs](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Horizon%20Boughs) makes [Deserter's Quarters](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380397) really inefficient. At best, you could retap a creature every turn for 6 mana in a two-player game.


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