Player Sacrifice Land + Evolving Wilds
Asked by phrosen63 6 years ago
Can the 'sacrifice land' keyword be "abused" with cards that benefit from it?
For instance: I have an Evolving Wilds and a Akki Avalanchers in play. I decide to use Akki's ability to sacrifice a land (as well as boosting akki by +2/+0) and choose Evolving Wilds as my target. -Does this mean I get to fetch a basic land card as of Evolving Wild's sac ability?
If yes, can this be used against opponent's cards that forces a player to sacrifice a land as well? (ie Destructive Force)
Basically, Sacrificing Evolving Wilds is a cost to activate either its ability or to activate Akki Avalanchers. You can't spend the same land to activate both abilities.
It's the same way with mana. If you had one blue mana in your mana pool, could you use it to cast both Serum Visions AND Preordain?
No. Of course not.
VraskaTheCursed says... Accepted answer #1
No, you can't do that because the sac is part of a cost, and doesn't have a target. Thus, you can't respond to it (you never target a land, it's just another cost to pay for the ability, just like paying mana or tapping a creature is a cost for some activated abilities).
It also does not work with your opponents forcing you to sac stuff, for the same reason - you aren't fulfilling a condition/effect on the card which is played (either by you or your opponent). in the former case, the condition (saccing a land) is part of the cost required to activate an ability, while in the latter case it is an action that you must take when a certain spell resolves. In each scenario, saccing the Evolving Wilds is not fulfilling the costs/effects of the spell/ability; it is merely preventing Evolving Wilds from being the land that is sacced, in which case you have to choose a different land to sac.
May 28, 2017 8:37 a.m.