When does the game check that your life is 0, specifically during the combat phases?
Asked by GreenLover21 7 years ago
A Primeval Titan swung for lethal to which i blocked with Hornet Nest, I also had Warstorm Surge on the field.
I specifically wanted to know when do the tokens stack vs when the combat damage resolves?
Do the tokens entering trigger Warstorm Surge first?
Raging_Squiggle says... Accepted answer #2
Assuming you still died even after reducing the damage dealt to you by 2...
704.3. Whenever a player would get priority (see rule 116, Timing and Priority), the game checks for any of the listed conditions for state-based actions, then performs all applicable state-based actions simultaneously as a single event. If any state-based actions are performed as a result of a check, the check is repeated; otherwise all triggered abilities that are waiting to be put on the stack are put on the stack, then the check is repeated. Once no more state-based actions have been performed as the result of a check and no triggered abilities are waiting to be put on the stack, the appropriate player gets priority...
704.5. The state-based actions are as follows:
704.5a If a player has 0 or less life, he or she loses the game.
You will lose the game before your trigger from Hornet Nest even goes on the stack.
Slythe says... #1
Combat damage resolves all at once. Effects from Hornet Nest would go on the stack after combat damage resolution. Life totals are checked as a state-based action, so you're dead as soon as damage resolves and Hornet Nest never triggers.
Now, if you had hit Hornet Nest with Comet Storm, X=6, during the declare blockers step you could've triggered Warstorm Surge off the 6 1/1 green insects and offed Prime Time before combat damage was resolved.
March 13, 2017 10:06 p.m.