Timetwister with Consuming Aberration on the field, does Aberration die because at one point it is a 0/0?
Asked by NorainJS 6 years ago
With my Consuming Aberration on the field, if one of my opponents plays Timetwister will the Aberration die or will it stay as a 1/1 because Timetwister enters the graveyard?
ZomBee_Hunt says... #2
Id say that it would be a 1/1.
My logic is that is that state based checks cant are checked whenever priority would be past. Time twister will be put into your graveyard at the end of of the spell resolving making your card a 1/1 before state based actions are checked. AT that point state based actions would be checked before your opponent gets priority back.
Level1Judge
May 19, 2017 5:27 p.m.
If your going to claim Judge status you should probably read the rulebook once in a while. The comp rules specifically go over why Consuming Aberration would stay alive in this case:
704.4. Unlike triggered abilities, state-based actions pay no attention to what happens during the resolution of a spell or ability.
Example: A player controls a creature with the ability This creatures power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand and casts a spell whose effect is Discard your hand, then draw seven cards. The creature will temporarily have toughness 0 in the middle of the spells resolution but will be back up to toughness 7 when the spell finishes resolving. Thus the creature will survive when state-based actions are checked. In contrast, an ability that triggers when the player has no cards in hand goes on the stack after the spell resolves, because its trigger event happened during resolution.
May 19, 2017 11:36 p.m.
Ps. NorainJS, If you're linking cards in the title of something, just put them in brackets. You don't need the "card:" bit, and it will show up weird on the Q&A page if you put it.
Neotrup says... #1
It's a 1/1. It only dies for having 0 toughness if it has 0 toughness when state based actions are checked, which doesn't happen until after the spell resolves and is put into the graveyard.
May 19, 2017 5:25 p.m.