Can I respond to Eldrazi Monument's triggered ability, to give myself a creature?
Asked by midnight426 4 years ago
The errata for Eldrazi Monument specifically talks about checking for creatures "as the triggered ability resolves". So, does that mean as the trigger first triggers, do I get priority, to be able to respond with something like Join the Ranks , and then let the Monument trigger resolve and see that I have the newly-created Soldier Ally creature tokens (and sacrifice a Soldier Ally rather than the Monument)? This is assuming I didn't have enough untapped mana for Join the Ranks at the beginning of my turn, and needed my untap phase to finish in order to have enough mana available to cast it.
Rhadamanthus says... #2
midnight426: A correct answer to this question has been up for a while. I marked it as the "Accepted answer" so that this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. Please remember to take care of this yourself in the future.
I try to avoid marking my own response when I have to do this, but in this case it was the only one available.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
Yes, that works. It's a triggered ability (starts with "when"/"whenever"/"at"), and every triggered ability goes onto the stack when it triggers and can be responded to before it starts resolving.
The rulings note you're referring to isn't errata, it's just clarification on exactly how you're supposed to handle the triggered ability as it resolves. Quoted below for reference:
10/1/2009: If you control any creatures as the triggered ability resolves, you must sacrifice one. You can't choose to sacrifice Eldrazi Monument instead. You sacrifice the Monument only if you had no creatures to sacrifice.
January 3, 2020 2:30 p.m.