Can i respond to universal solvent being activated by destroying it, and if I can, would the effect still resolve?
Asked by ConstantVigilance 3 years ago
So let's say my opponent has a Universal Solvent in play. They activated it, and targeted my creature. Can I respond to that with Beast Within and destroy Universal Solvent, and would that cancel the destroy effect?
ConstantVigilance says... #2
June 10, 2020 2:01 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
ConstantVigilance: You can use the green "Mark as Answer" button on the response that best answered your question to mark the topic as resolved and move it out of the list of unanswered questions.
June 10, 2020 8:52 a.m.
Also, with the question of "would destroying it cancel the effect?" Although it obviously doesn't work here as you can't, it's worth addressing for other situations, but the answer's still no. If someone activated Altar of Shadows targeting your Kozilek, the Great Distortion and you Naturalize it, your Kozilek still dies.
Tylord2894 says... #1
Just for future reference, you can surround a card's name with double brackets, "[", in order to link the card image to it. You can do this sitewide.
To your question though, you can respond to the activation of Universal Solvent, but the Solvent will be gone when you do so. In all activated abilities, there is a colon, ":". Everything after the colon are the effects. Everything prior are the costs. In order to activate an ability, you must pay all the costs associated with it. For the Solvent, that means paying Mana and sacrificing it, so it would, therefore, not be there after the ability is activated.
This is often a problem with Tormod's Crypt. There is very little you can do to get rid of it once it's on the battlefield since your opponent can be activated whenever, and it will take your graveyard with it.
Hope this helps!!
June 9, 2020 11:04 p.m.