It'd be ashamed if Searing Blood ruined your infinite combo.
Asked by FALLEN-X-ANGEL 9 years ago
My opponent has Kitchen Finks and a Viscera Seer out and plays a Melira, Sylvok Outcast . I Searing Blood Meliria and my opponent responses by sacrificing Kitchen Finks A numerous of times to gain 3 billion life (ridiculous). Is that a legal action?
If done in this order then yes. What you can do is let them sacrifice the Finks and once its Persist hits the stack then you can Searing Blood Melira. For this combo to work the Persist has to resolve each time for the combo to continue and you can for example remove the card from the graveyard to stop the combo. If you try to kill Melira before the combo has started however then your Searing Blood stays on the stack until they have decided to stop gaining life if you have no other way of stopping the combo.
Drilnoth says... Accepted answer #1
If all three of those cards are on the battlefield when you cast Searing Blood , yes. The stack resolves one item at a time, and then there is a round of priority before any item resolves. So, you cast Searing Blood, and in response your opponent sacrifices the Finks. The Finks' persist triggers, and since it is now the top item of the stack, it resolves before the Searing Blood. Then the Seer ability resolves. At this point, however, there is still a round of priority before the Searing Blood resolves, so this process can be repeated an arbitrarily large number of times assuming there is nothing else going on.
However, there are two convenient times you could cast the Searing Blood to stop the combo:
While Melira is on the stack (before it enters the battlefield), you could Searing Blood the Viscera Seer. Then he wouldn't have a way to sacrifice the Finks (unless something else also gives him the ability to), so he can't pull of his combo.
While Kitchin Finks is in the graveyard, with its persist trigger on the stack. This is probably the optimal time if you want to kill Melira. Basically, Melira resolves and all three of the creature are in play. Wait until your opponent starts the combo by sacrificing the Finks. Right after sacrificing the Finks, the stack looks like this (bottom to top): 1) Viscera Seer ability; 2) Persist trigger. Since there is a round of priority before anything on the stack resolves, you can at this point cast Searing Blood on Melira. Since the Searing Blood is on the top of the stack, it resolves first and Melira dies before the Finks return to play. The Finks then return with a -1/-1 counter as normal.
July 3, 2014 4:22 a.m.