can Angel's Grace control the stack?
Asked by ParadoxWizard 12 years ago
Let's say I cast the instant Angels Grace during my opponents upkeep. The text on Angel's Grace reads:
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.
Does angel's grace remain on the stack until the end step and prevent my opponent from casting spells this turn? Or does it go on the stack and resolve all during the upkeep step?
When you cast card:Angel's Grace and you put it on the stack and players pass priority, the spell resolves. Its effects happen. The effect on card:Angel's Grace gives you:
You can't lose the game this turn, and your opponents cant win.
Then the life effect.
When it resolves from the stack, you gain these things, and the spell is removed from the stack and put in the graveyard.
It is much like Giant Growth , You cast the spell, it goes to the GY and you gain the effect.
December 3, 2012 9:43 a.m.
Vesperia47 says... #3
Well really you can't just cast card:Angel's Grace at the beginning of your opponents upkeep. They have priority then so you can't do anything until one of two things happens: 1. They cast a spell, activate an ability, or a triggered ability they control triggers. This then will pass priority to you and you can do what you want (though card:Angel's Grace will be of no help). or 2. They pass priority right away because they are not going to do anything during that upkeep (again, this doesn't help you because if they weren't going to cast anything to begin with, why use card:Angel's Grace at all then?).
December 3, 2012 11:16 a.m.
Vesperia47 says... #4
I think you are confusing card:Angel's Grace's Split Second keyword with the effect of, say, Silence . Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to want to use Split Second to proactively "counter" your opponent's spell/ability. This wouldn't work for several reasons: 1. Read my above post, it explains that you really couldn't even cast card:Angel's Grace yet. 2. Let's say you opponent cast something at the beginning of his or her upkeep, you respond by casting card:Angel's Grace, all card:Angel's Grace will stop is them casting or activating something after that (as Split Second explains). Then everything resolves and your opponent again has priority to do what he wants. Basically to summarize, Split Second is a keyword that only helps in stopping responses to it (e.g. counterspells, stuff that would mess with what your spell was trying to do) and it has no sway over if an opponent could or couldn't do something.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
The game cannot progress to the next step or phase unless all players pass priority over an empty stack. Logically, card:Angel's Grace will resolve during the step or phase you cast it (just like any other spell).
December 3, 2012 2:55 a.m.