A question about simultaneous damage triggers?
Asked by MTGJustice 9 years ago
If I attack with a Daxos of Meletis and a Nightveil Specter and both deal damage, which one has their ability triggered first?
Both triggers occur simultaneously. Whenever multiple triggers happen at the same time, they go onto the stack in APNAP order, where multiple triggers controlled by one person go onto the stack in whichever order they like.
So in this case, you'll choose the order the two triggers go onto the stack. If your opponent also had an effect which triggered during the combat damage step, such as Vengeful Pharaoh , they will put their trigger onto the stack second, which means it will resolve first, and end up destroying one of your attacking creatures (which will have the effect of no longer letting you play the card that was exiled by their ability which is still on the stack, and the card will just be exiled forever) followed by their two exile triggers in whichever order you stacked them.
July 2, 2014 10:14 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #3
@Devonin: Your parenthetical addition is partially incorrect. Daxos of Meletis 's second ability exiles the card, causes you to gain life, and creates the effect that allows you to play that card. Destroying or otherwise removing Daxos of Meletis from the battlefield will not affect the ability.
However, you're correct about Nightveil Specter . You can only play cards exiled by Nightveil Specter because Nightveil Specter 's last static ability creates an effect that allows you to do so. Removing Nightveil Specter removes this ability.
July 2, 2014 10:24 a.m.
@Epochalyptik Fair enough. The general similarity of their effects caused me to conflate their restrictions on playing the card.
Nigeltastic says... Accepted answer #1
Both triggers go on the stack, and whomever owns them chooses the order in which they are placed on it, and thus the order in which they resolve.
July 2, 2014 10 a.m.