Avaricious Dragon + Incorrigible Youths - does it work?

Asked by krunchyfrogg 7 years ago

I'm wondering if Avaricious Dragon and Incorrigible Youths make a good combo.

Basically, when the dragon makes me discard my hand at the beginning of my end step, am I still able to summon the youths with madness?

Or is summoning not allowed during the end step?

darkmatter32x says... Accepted answer #1

Yes. Madness mechanics trigger anytime you are able to discard the card.

May 19, 2016 10:51 p.m.

BlueScope says... #2

Players gain priority in the end step, which means they can cast spells and activate abilities normally. This is what's happening if a player announces they're doing something at the end of turn.

However, Madness works fundamentally different. The ability itself allows you to cast a card during it's resolution, which means you get to ignore all timing restrictions. While a spell resolves, no player may cast spells or activate abilities, so this is really the only way Madness could work.
This is why you can cast a card with Madness that you discard in your cleanup step because you have too many cards in hand, where players don't normally get priority.

On a different note, I build a deck called SOI Die Hard that abuses this and also plays Avaricious Dragon, however with the rest of the Madness enablers, the dragon wasn't relevant in a single game so far...

May 20, 2016 4:05 a.m.

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