Time Stop game interaction
Asked by andrehziinhu 9 years ago
I was playing commander yesterday with my friend, and I came up with the following combo: Elite Arcanist + Time Stop.
and as soon I had 6 mana during his turn I was able to cast it every upkeep, but he had a lot of upkeep stuff going on like Assemble the Legion, and there is a question raised here.
I know that I can play Time Stop during his upkeep when I get priority (after him), the way I see it I can also play Time Stop in response to all "at the beginning of upkeep" effects, which would exile them and he would just untap stuff and pass the turn back to me, is this correct? or does he always get to resolve upkeep effects at least ?
andrehziinhu says... #2
ok, so in other words the combo works, once I get arcanist in play with Time Stop, the only way to stop if is if the opponent (1v1) has a instant that take care of Arcanist, otherwise no triggered abilities in his turn, no card draw, no turn
January 14, 2015 9:33 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #3
Time Stop's reminder text states that you exile all spells and abilities from the stack. None of those things resolve.
To answer your followup question, yes. Your opponent would need to respond to Time Stop somehow and prevent it from resolving. Your opponent could also respond by killing Elite Arcanist, but that wouldn't do anything to stop the Time Stop copy currently on the stack. It would only keep you from activating the ability on the following turns.
Draugo says... Accepted answer #1
If you respond with Time Stop after you get priority the first time in your opponents upkeep but before any of those triggers resolve then yes, they would not get to resolve any of their at the beginning of upkeep abilities. They can still respond to Time Stop though by for example countering it, killing the Elite Arcanist (to stop any further shenanigans etc.) but unless Time Stop is countered then all the triggered abilities are exiled and don't resolve.
January 14, 2015 8:22 a.m.