Stacking Fleshtaker and Ravenous Squirrel's Abilities?
Asked by DemonDragonJ 2 years ago
If a player controls both Fleshtaker and Ravenous Squirrel, and then sacrifices a creature with the squirrel's ability, can that player stack the abilities of both creatures so that they scry, then draw a card?
DemonDragonJ says... #2
Necrosis24, that is very good to know; thank you, very much.
January 18, 2022 9:05 p.m.
Necrosis24, the abilities actually do go on the stack at the same time. When you sacrifice the creature to activate Ravenous Squirrel's ability, both Ravenous Squirrel and Fleshtaker's "whenever you sacrifice" abilities trigger, but neither of them can be put onto the stack until the Ravenous Squirrel activation is finished and the ability is on the stack. Once that happens, state-based actions are checked before players get priority, and the two triggers from Fleshtaker and Ravenous Squirrel will be added to the stack. Since you control both and they're being added at the same time, you can indeed choose what order to put them on the stack in.
This applies any time an action would trigger multiple abilities you control, or even if different actions during the resolution of a single spell or ability would trigger multiple abilities.
January 18, 2022 9:56 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #4
Polaris: The question isn't about ordering the triggered abilities of the cards involved. It' about whether it's possible to choose the order of Ravenous Squirrel's activated ability and Fleshtaker's triggered ability.
Necrosis24 says... Accepted answer #1
I may be wrong here but I am pretty sure you don’t have a choice on how they stack in this occasion.
You will activate Ravenous Squirrel’s ability and sacrifice a creature to pay it’s cost. Thus the Ravenous Squirrel’s ability will go on the stack first then the Fleshtaker’s triggered ability will go on the stack.
So regardless you will scry first off of Fleshtaker then draw a card from Ravenous Squirrel (which is what you want). But you do not have control on the order they stack.
You can however stack how both of their triggered abilities stack since they both trigger at the same time. Although in most situations it won’t matter in this case as their triggered abilities don’t really care about each other.
January 18, 2022 8:54 p.m.