How would this scenario play out in regards to "these abilities on the stack"?
Asked by chronomentro 5 years ago
The 3 cards involved are Merieke Ri Berit , Curse of Inertia , and Dauntless Aven . I control all 3 of these and it's my turn. Merieke Ri Berit is currently tapped and I have control of an opponent's creature. Curse of Inertia and Dauntless Aven are already in play, and I plan to attack with ONLY Dauntless Aven this turn. My opponent has 2 creatures able to block. Once I declare Dauntless Aven as an attacker there are 2 triggered abilities that I have to deal with; tap/untap target permanent, and, untap target creature I control. What I would LIKE to do is untap Merieke Ri Berit with 1 of these triggered abilities (destroying the opponents creature I control), then immediately tap Merieke Ri Berit taking control of 1 of my opponent's remaining 2 creatures...AND THEN use the 2nd triggered ability to untap Merieke Ri Berit AGAIN; destroying thAt creature; tap Merieke Ri Berit and take control of the opponents last creature. Opponent gets priority to play instants/activate abilities after each of my actions...opponent now has no blockers...combat damage step Dauntless Aven deals 2 damage...End of Combat. I don't think it works this way though bc the rules state that the abilities have to resolve before any player gets priority...so, the 2 triggered tap abilities have to be assigned targets, they resolve, THEN i would receive priority to use the activated ability of Merieke Ri Berit . We're noobs but quickly learning all these 'magic'al rules haha.. Just had to check with the real experts about this dynamic.. Thank You in advance for the help!
Gidgetimer says... #2
Just FYI the "spells and abilities have to resolve before a player gets priority" thing is only once the spell or ability has begun resolving. For instance no player receives priority between losing life and discarding cards to Pox . As Rhadamanthus has said though, there is a round of priority between each spell or ability resolving and you can activate the ability as you are hoping to.
February 2, 2019 7:26 p.m.
chronomentro says... #3
Rhadamanthus and Gidgetimer, Thank you _both _so much! That's incredible that it works that way, but now it makes sense given your explanations... Thanks Again!!
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
That trick actually does work.
The key thing to know is that spells and abilities on the stack resolve one at a time and players are given priority to make more responses after each one. The next object on the stack will only start resolving if everyone decides to pass instead of taking another action. Any responses will be added to the top of the stack order, so in your example you can do just like you describe in the first part of your question and respond by tapping Merieke after the first untap effect resolves but before the second one starts resolving.
February 1, 2019 5:46 p.m.