A question about Plaguemaw Beast and Undying

Asked by TylerJohns 13 years ago

Do the cost of Plaguemaw Beast's ability and the effect of that ability happen at the same time?

If I was to Tap Plaguemaw Beast and sacrifice Young Wolf, would the wolf's effect activate on top of Plaguemaw Beast's effect? Would it enter the battlefield and then have it's counter proliferated?

This is how I see it:

Tap, Sac Young Wolf: Plaguemaw's ability enters the stack.Wolf hits graveyard: Wolf's ability hits the stack on top of Plaguemaw's.

Resolve stack in reverse order.

This right?

GoblinsInc says... Accepted answer #1

Do the cost of Plaguemaw Beast's ability and the effect of that ability happen at the same time?

No. The beasts' ability is put on the stack. Then you pay the costs. Now the ability is on the stack, waiting to resolve.

If I was to Tap Plaguemaw Beast and sacrifice Young Wolf, would the wolf's effect activate on top of Plaguemaw Beast's effect? Would it enter the battlefield and then have it's counter proliferated?

If you sacrificed a young wolf as part of the activation cost, then yes the wolf's undying ability would -trigger- when it dies. Once you have finished activating the beast's ability then the wolf's will go on the stack above it. The wolf will come back due to undying, and then the proflierate ability will resolve, letting you proliferate the wolf's +1/+1 counter

This is how I see it:Tap, Sac Young Wolf: Plaguemaw's ability enters the stack.Wolf hits graveyard: Wolf's ability hits the stack on top of Plaguemaw's.Resolve stack in reverse order.This right?

Yes, though some wording/terminology is a bit off.

March 7, 2012 4:17 p.m.

GoblinsInc says... #2

Now the ability is on the stack, waiting to resolve.

This should also mention that the ability's effects won't occur until the ability resolves. For clarity

March 7, 2012 4:18 p.m.

BigBruce says... #3

Plaguemaw Beast

Young Wolf

You're right

You sacrifice Young Wolf as part of activating the Beast's ability, by that time the Beast's ability is already on the stack (because that's the first step of activating an ability).

So Young Wolf ability will go on the stack above the Beast's ability and will resolves first, bringing Young Wolf back with a +1/+1 counter.

Then the Beast's ability will resolve and you get to proliferate. Since what is proliferated is chosen on resolution, you can choose to proliferate Young Wolf +1/+1 counter.

March 7, 2012 4:19 p.m.