Maintaining priority
Asked by Amarin1492 9 years ago
My opponent casts Thoughtseize . I have 3 Lightning Bolt in my hand. After my opponent casts Thoughtseize he passes priority to me. In response, can I cast all three bolts at the same time, or do I have to pass priority back to him when I cast the first bolt?
Amarin1492 says... #2
But if I passed priority after casting the first bolt, then wouldn't Thoughtseize resolve before I could cast bolts 2 and 3?
October 16, 2014 11:20 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #3
No. If you pass after casting Bolt and then your opponent passes back, Bolt resolves. Then your opponent gets priority again (he's the active player). He passes to you and then you cast another Bolt. Thoughtseize would only start resolving if you passed back instead.
October 16, 2014 11:26 a.m.
Seraphicate says... #4
Nothing starts to resolve until all players pass priority, you will have 3 Lightning Bolt s on the stack above your opponent's Thoughtseize .
October 16, 2014 12:11 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #5
Significantly, the stack doesn't resolve all at once. Rather, when all players pass priority in succession, the topmost object on the stack resolves. After that, players must again pass priority in order to resolve the next object.
Rhadamanthus says... #1
After a player adds a spell or activated ability to the stack, that player gets priority again. You can hold priority after casting the first Lightning Bolt and cast another one, and so on. Just be clear to your opponent that you're doing this, because the standard tournament shortcut is to assume a player passes priority after taking an action.
If for some reason you don't want all 3 bolts to be on the stack at the same time (you're afraid of a Counterflux or Mindbreak Trap , for example), you can cast and resolve them one at a time. Priority will go back and forth again after each Bolt resolves, and instead of passing you can cast another one.
October 16, 2014 11:05 a.m.