Catacomb Sifter+Evolutionary leap stacking scry
Asked by IzzetMtG 8 years ago
WIth a Catacomb Sifter out and an Evolutionary Leap if I activate the Leap and sacrifice a creature triggering the Sifter's scry ability, can I stack the triggers so I scry after the Leap trigger resolves? Otherwise that scry becomes mostly useless if the Leap resolves after it.
So the Leap ability goes on the stack first no matter what? Then the Sifter trigger goes on top, since they resolve top-down?
April 1, 2016 3:10 p.m.
Raging_Squiggle says... #3
To give a reason as to why this happens, an ability can trigger even when no player has priority. If this happens, that trigger waits to go on the stack until the next time a player receives priority.
In this case, Catacomb Sifter's ability triggers during the time you're paying the cost to activate Evolutionary Leap. However, it does not go on the stack until priority is received and the next time that happens is when the activated ability from Evolutionary Leap is put on to the stack.
So the stack will look like this, from top to bottom:
Catacomb Sifter's triggered ability.
Evolutionary Leap's activated ability.
April 1, 2016 3:13 p.m.
Exactly. You'll Scry 1, and then resolve the activated ability of Evolutionary Leap. Now if you had a Catacomb Sifter and a card like Sifter of Skulls that also cared when a creature died, you can stack those death triggers however you want. Just as long as they are above the activated ability of Evolutionary Leap
JWiley129 says... Accepted answer #1
No. Evolutionary Leap is an activated ability and Catacomb Sifter has a triggered ability. Whenever you activate an ability that causes a triggered ability to trigger, you put the triggered ability above the activated ability that triggered it. So in your instance, the stack would be as follows.
Catacomb Sifter triggered ability.
Evolutionary Leap activated ability.
April 1, 2016 3:01 p.m.