Goyf, Dismember , and statebased actions.

Asked by Kjartan 8 years ago

My goyf is a 4/5 with no instants in the Graveyard. My opponents wants to Dismember it. Will goyf get pumped before it dies, or the other way around. Both it's death and it's pump are statebased actions, so how do you decide which happens first?

Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1

The pump is not a state-based action. It's a static ability (specifically, a characteristic-defining ability, but any static ability works this way) that scales immediately to any relevant change in the game state.

Goyf will be a 5/6 as soon as Dismember hits the yard at the end of its resolution. SBAs will check and see a 5/6 with -5/-5, and it will live as a 0/1 until EOT.

June 8, 2015 7:53 a.m.