Does he kill himself defending himself?
Asked by Parshall 1 year ago
EDH Game: My commander is Ruric Thar, the Unbowed and he is in play without summoning sickness.
I attack my opponent with 6 life, he has no creatures in play, but he has an Aetherflux Reservoir.
He plays Aetherspouts after I declare my attackers.
According to him, the stack goes from bottom to top: Aetherspouts, Ruric Thar's 6 damage to him, his 1 life gained from the reservoir.
He says he lives through the turn with 1 life.
Is he correct? Is this stack order correct? Next turn he played an isochron scepter with dramatic reversal and went infinite...
420MensRightsActivist says... #2
the stack always goes top to bottom, not bottom to top. Aetherspouts would go onto the stack first (putting it on bottom) then ruric thar, then the 1 point of life gain. so when the stack resolves, the 1 point of life gain will be on top and resolve first.
June 5, 2022 7:21 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
Parshall: Answers to your question have been up for a while. Since you confirmed in a post on my wall that my response answered your question, I marked it as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future you can take care of this yourself using the "Mark as Answer" button on the response that you feel best answers your question.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
Because it's your turn, yes, that's how it works out.
When multiple triggered abilities controlled by different players are trying to go onto the stack at the same time, the active player's triggers are put onto the stack first, then the non-active player's triggers are put onto the stack on top of those (if there are more than 2 players involved, this process goes around the table in turn order). In this example that means everything ends up on the stack in the order your opponent describes.
June 2, 2022 3:09 p.m.