Time Stop
Asked by Brastus 10 years ago
can Time Stop be cast during a player's draw step to prevent them from drawing?
And when cast, on top of exiling all other spells still on the stack, includes itself.
Is there a way to prevent Time Stop from being exiled, but allow it to still resolve?(is this not the place to ask that?)
Epochalyptik says... #2
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Time Stop
"Is there a way to" questions should be asked in the forums, but it passes here because it's stapled to a rule question.
April 30, 2014 1:42 p.m.
GreatSword says... #3
Drawing a card for the turn is a turn-based action done at the start of the draw phase. It doesn't use the stack, so it can't be "responded" to. However, you may cast it in your opponent's upkeep phase to end their turn immediately.
No, there's no way to prevent the card from exiling itself. When an object on the stack is resolving, no player has priority to cast spells or activate abilities. Short of some strange "if a spell would be exiled, instead put it in your graveyard" or some other weird effect or combination, there's basically no way to interact with this card.
Absinthman says... Accepted answer #1
This is the right place to ask such question.
If you want to prevent your opponent from drawing, you need to cast Time Stop during his or her upkeep. You also get priority during that player draw step, but only after he or she has already drawn a card.
As far as I know, there is no way to keep Time Stop from being exile while still having it resolve.
April 30, 2014 1:40 p.m.