Interaction between Marath, Will of the Wild and Mage Slayer
Asked by Olegchan 4 years ago
How much Damage would Marath, Will of the Wild do, if i equipped it with Mage Slayer and used his ability to deal 1 dmg to a player directly? Do i deal his current power, or does it have to be combat damage to trigger mage slayer?
Thanks in advance for your help.
dragonstryke58 says... #2
Technically, you could declare Marath, Will of the Wild as an attacker which would in turn trigger Mage Slayer 's ability. Then with Mage Slayer 's ability on the stack, you could activate marath's ability to deal damage. I am assuming that's probably the closest situation to the OP's dilemma.
If that is the case, when resolving Mage Slayer 's triggered ability, you would use Marath, Will of the Wild 's current power and not the power before you removed counters for its ability. This is because if an effect needs information from the game (in this case Marath's power) it is determined once when the effect is applied not when the ability is put onto the stack.
608.2g If an effect requires information from the game (such as the number of creatures on the battlefield), the answer is determined only once, when the effect is applied. If the effect requires information from a specific object, including the source of the ability itself, the effect uses the current information of that object if it’s in the public zone it was expected to be in; if it’s no longer in that zone, or if the effect has moved it from a public zone to a hidden zone, the effect uses the object’s last known information. See rule 112.7a. If an ability states that an object does something, it’s the object as it exists—or as it most recently existed—that does it, not the ability.
Aside from that, things would be as cdkime said.
Caerwyn says... Accepted answer #1
Mage Slayer does not trigger based on damage--it triggers when the creature is declared as an attacker. As such, activating Marath, Will of the Wild 's ability does not implicate Mage Slayer 's triggered ability.
June 13, 2019 3:41 p.m.