Board wipe with Blood Artist?
Asked by aepokh 12 years ago
Suppose there are 20 creatures on the battlefield including a Blood Artist which I control. Then someone casts Wrath of God, destroying all of them. In what order are the creatures destroyed? Or if it happens simultaneously, will their deaths trigger Blood Artist's ability even as it's being destroyed?
Can I gain 20 life and have players lose 20 life?
The owners choose what order their creatures will go into the graveyard. However, when multiple creatures enter or exit play at once, they will all trigger each other's effects for entering and leaving the battlefield.
December 20, 2012 1:15 p.m.
All of the creatures die simultaneously, and Blood Artist "sees" them all go, including himself. Therefore, you gain 1 life for each creature on the battlefield at the time of the Wrath's resolution, and your opponent loses that much life. In AP/NAP order, each player gets to decide how they want to stack any triggered abilities resulting from the mass execution, then those triggers begin resolving on the stack normally, with priority exchanges in between allowing for both players to add their own instants and activated abilities to the stack as they see fit.
Incidentally, the best kind of board wipe involving Blood Artist is your own Killing Wave . Make it happen, it's funny.
December 20, 2012 1:19 p.m.
It should also be noted that if you both had a Blood Artist in play, it is possible to still win.
Since all creatures (20) die at the same time each death will trigger both Blood Artist 's ability. When the Wrath of God finishes resolving, each player will have 20 abilities to be put on the stack... the 'Active Player' will put theirs on the stack first, followed by the 'Innactive Player(s)' (in play-turn order, if there are more than 2 players).
If your opponent was the 'Active Player', your Blood Artist 's abilities will resolve first, and each instance of the ability will resolve in order. State Based effects will be checked between each, and if your opponent gets to 0 life at any of these checks, you win.
In other words, you need to make sure that if you each control a Blood Artist , any 'mass-destruction' is done on your opponents turn.
ImTriForceGuy says... #1
They lose 20 life, you gain 20. Someone else would be better at explaining why though.
December 20, 2012 1:12 p.m.