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a few questions about the rules of magic the gathering?
these are some tough ones,. I'm not 100% sure about them so any experts out there or any players with an idea tell me:
Q1)what happens if i have 1 creature out, and it has protection from colours,and opp. plays a spell telling me to sacrifice a creature? will it be sacrificed?
Q2)catapult master uses his ability to kill royal assassin right? 5 soldiers are tapped, can he use royal assassin to kill a tapped soldier and stop the ability?
Q3) and a similar one with prodigal sorcerer and royal assassin killing each other, are they both dead or is prod killed faster?
2 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
hi there!
let's give examples, and go step by step, to make it easier.
Q1: Let's say you have an Iridescent Angel, which has protection from all colors. It's the only creature you have in play.
Your opponent plays a Chainers' Edict on his main phase.
See, among other things, the static ability Protection from (quality) means that the permanent can't be targeted by spells or abilities from sources of the stated quality. So, any spell or ability naturally cannot target Iridescent Angel.
But Chainer's Edict targets a PLAYER. that's you.
so you'll have to sac the Angel.
Q2: a player declares that he is using the Catapult master's ability. The action goes on the stack.He then declares a target, his opponent's Royal Assassin, and pays the costs.
In response, his opponent uses his Royal Assasin's ability to destroy one of the tapped soldiers. the ability goes on the stack.
according to Last In First Out, the RA's ability resolves, destroys the soldier. Then the RA is destroyed by the catapult.
see, the Royal Assassin isn't fast enough to stop the ability. It has to target a tapped creature, and by that time the CM's action is already on the stack.
Q3: same thing. one-for-one. the assassin kills the pyromancer, then the pyromancer kills the assassin. Then they both go to their respective graveyards.
- 1 decade ago
Q1) Sacrifice ocurs, the creature cannot be targeted but the spells target is you not the creatue.
Q2) both abilities occur, remember effects work like this: Last in first out. If you assassinate a creature and he catapults your assassin, the catapult kills the assassin and then the assassin kills the targeted creature, both are 'on the stack' and occur.
Q3) exactly the same, when more than 1 effect is happening create a virtual 'stack' so the proddy spends its cost (tap) to target to the assassin and puts his 1dmg on the stack, the assassin then taps (his cost) to target the proddy. now 2 effects create a stack, and new effects (eg a spell) are added to this stack. only instants and instant effects can be added.
Last in first out resolves the stack, the origional creature does not need to be present for the effect to go off.