Primal Wellspring Flip and Fateful Showdown interaction
Asked by Aethos 6 years ago
The situation:
I have Primal Wellspring in play and Fateful Showdown and let's say a Shadow of the Grave in hand.
The question:
If I cast Fateful Showdown with mana from Primal Wellspring, can I cast Shadow of the Grave on top of the original Fateful Showdown before the copy is created.
As I understand it, Primal Wellspring creates a delayed trigger. What I'm unclear about is, if the trigger itself goes onto the stack and I can respond to it (or someone could Stifle it), or if it just happens and both original and copy go onto the stack simultaneous - kinda like a replacement effect.
My guess would be it's the latter. It sounds very similar to Day's Undoing's "if it's your turn ..." clause, which also just happens.
Thanks a lot to everyone that can clear up my confusion :)
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
It's a delayed trigger (triggered abilities always start with "when/whenever/at") that players are allowed to respond to, but the play you're trying to make won't work.
The problem is that there's no way to insert a spell or ability in-between other objects already on the stack. New objects can only be added to the top of the stack. The Shadow of the Grave will either be on top of the delayed trigger or on top of the copy created by the trigger, meaning it will resolve before you actually discard anything. However, if you happen to draw another Shadow of the Grave from the copy of Fateful Showdown then you can respond with that one before the original Showdown starts to resolve.
January 16, 2018 2:12 p.m.