Another question about the order of resolving abilities
Asked by krunchyfrogg 7 years ago
Scenario:
One Thing in the Ice Flip with one ice counter left, and one Abbot of Keral Keep are on the battlefield.
The Abbot of Keral Keep attacks and I cast Rush of Adrenaline for more damage. Does the Abbot of Keral Keep get to do the 5 damage, or is he bounced back to my hand by the flipping of Thing in the Ice Flip before that happens?
The attack is paused while the stack resolves.
- Attack is declared.
- Defenders are declared.
- Rush of Adrenaline is casted, pausing combat
- Thing in the Ice Flip is triggered and goes on the stack
- No other spells are played, Thing in the Ice Flip resolves, flipping it
- Thing in the Ice Flip's flip effect is triggered, it resolves, Abbot of Keral Keep and everything else non-horror is returned to hands.
- Rush of Adrenaline attempts to resolve with no target and fizzles.
- Nothing is left on the stack, combat damage proceeds for no damage.
tldr; No, it doesn't work. Abbot is returned to your hand and Rush does nothing.
May 15, 2016 9:57 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #4
It is not really that combat is "paused". Steps and phases don't advance unless players pass priority over an empty stack. We are still on the declare blockers step of combat. Combat is still the phase that we are in. It is just that there are objects on the stack that need to resolve before we can go to the combat damage step from the declare blockers step.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
The Abbot goes back to your hand before it deals damage.
The key thing here is that combat damage happens in its own separate step of the combat phase. Your last opportunity to use spells/abilities that can affect combat damage is before the end of the declare blockers step. The ability of Thing in the Ice Flip will trigger when you cast the spell, and it has to resolve before the game can move on to the combat damage step.
May 15, 2016 9:54 p.m.