7/25/2023 0 Comments Mtg when cast effect stack![]() ![]() If you don’t, you lose 4 life.” A player who controls no creatures can’t choose the sacrifice option. (Note that if an effect divides or distributes something, such as damage or counters, as a player chooses among some number of target objects and/or players, the amount and division were determined as the spell or ability was put onto the stack rather than at this time see rule 601.2d.)Įxample: A spell’s instruction reads, “You may sacrifice a creature. If an effect divides or distributes something, such as damage or counters, as a player chooses among any number of untargeted players and/or objects, the player chooses the amount and division such that each chosen player or object receives at least one of whatever is being divided. The player can’t choose an option that’s illegal or impossible, with the exception that having a library with no cards in it doesn’t make drawing a card an impossible action (see rule 121.3). 608.2d If an effect of a spell or ability offers any choices other than choices already made as part of casting the spell, activating the ability, or otherwise putting the spell or ability on the stack, the player announces these while applying the effect.If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner’s library instead of into its owner’s graveyard.”) Don’t just apply effects step by step without thinking in these cases-read the whole text and apply the rules of English to the text. It can’t be regenerated” or “Counter target spell. In some cases, later text on the card may modify the meaning of earlier text (for example, “Destroy target creature. However, replacement effects may modify these actions. 608.2c The controller of the spell or ability follows its instructions in the order written.The “destroy target nonblack creature” part of the spell won’t affect that permanent, but the “destroy target land” part of the spell will still destroy it. Plague Spores still resolves because the black creature land is still a legal target for the “target land” part of the spell. They can’t be regenerated.” Suppose the same creature land is chosen both as the nonblack creature and as the land, and the color of the creature land is changed to black before Plague Spores resolves. ![]() Its controller doesn’t gain any life.Įxample: Plague Spores reads, “Destroy target nonblack creature and target land. Any part of the effect that requires that information won’t happen.Įxample: Sorin’s Thirst is a black instant that reads, “Sorin’s Thirst deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.” If the creature isn’t a legal target during the resolution of Sorin’s Thirst (say, if the creature has gained protection from black or left the battlefield), then Sorin’s Thirst doesn’t resolve. If part of the effect requires information about an illegal target, it fails to determine any such information. If the spell or ability creates any continuous effects that affect game rules (see rule 613.11), those effects don’t apply to illegal targets. Other parts of the effect for which those targets are not illegal may still affect them. Illegal targets, if any, won’t be affected by parts of a resolving spell’s effect for which they’re illegal. Otherwise, the spell or ability will resolve normally. It’s removed from the stack and, if it’s a spell, put into its owner’s graveyard. If all its targets, for every instance of the word “target,” are now illegal, the spell or ability doesn’t resolve. If the source of an ability has left the zone it was in, its last known information is used during this process. Other changes to the game state may cause a target to no longer be legal for example, its characteristics may have changed or an effect may have changed the text of the spell. A target that’s no longer in the zone it was in when it was targeted is illegal. 608.2b If the spell or ability specifies targets, it checks whether the targets are still legal.If it isn’t, the ability is removed from the stack and does nothing. 608.2a If a triggered ability has an intervening “if” clause, it checks whether the clause’s condition is true.The step described in rule 608.2m is followed last. The steps described in rules 608.2c–k are then followed as appropriate, in no specific order. The steps described in rules 608.2a and 608.2b are followed first. If the object that’s resolving is an instant spell, a sorcery spell, or an ability, its resolution may involve several steps. Each time all players pass in succession, the spell or ability on top of the stack resolves. From the Comprehensive Rules (April 14, 2023- March of the Machine) ![]()
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