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I asked this question earlier and the answer is that neither returns to your hand.

Oh, and the better place for questions like this is the Ruling Questions board.

There is no errata the REG. If one was negated, why would you not be able to get it back with the other?

 I understand that if neither was negated that they can't exclude each other. The "except this one" clause would apply to both individually.

This question was brought up before (I believe by MJB) and it was officially ruled that one Momentum Change won't return a second Momentum Change.  I can't remember the exact reason behind the ruling and it was unfortunately lost in the recent purge.

The exact reason from The Schaef was "Because I don't want you to break the game." I took great enjoyment at being the "you" in that sentence*, which is why I remember it.

The broader reason was that each Momentum change excluded itself from being targetted at the time the SA triggered.

I also remember that this was ruled the way that Gabe and MJB are saying.

YMT, I missed the part where you added the constraint that one of the two Momentum Change was negated. The previous ruling I was talking about dealt with TheraxC's original scenario specifically where both Momentum Change were active.

Based on the reasoning behind that ruling--that each Momentum Change excludes itself from being targeted at the battle resolution--I would side with you on this one. If asked to judge in a tournament, I would rule that an active MC could retrieve a negated MC. Because a negated MC has no active special ability to prevent its own targeting.

This is all based on my recollection of the real underlying reasoning behind the original ruling, which may be faulty. It also would be in agreement with the spirit of the original ruling which was that we shouldn't break the game.