Can I Return a Sacrificed Creature Using Itself? (Whisper Shinanigans)

Asked by BruhYouFarted 2 years ago

Ok so I sacrifice Gary along with a Zombie Token to Whisper, Blood Liturgist. Could I use the Whisper trigger to target Gary since he's in the graveyard?

Yesterday says... Accepted answer #1

You can't. In order to put Whisper's ability on the stack, you need to declare its targets, and then pay its costs. Our buddy Gary won't be in the graveyard until after you've paid the costs of Whisper's ability, which is too late for it to be declared as the target.

After you've paid the costs to activate the ability targeting another creature card in your graveyard, a player could change the target of that ability to Gary with something like Deflecting Swat, though that's not a very practically useful tech.

Blood for Bones can sacrifice and then return the same creature, because it doesn't commit to a target on-cast. You don't need to make a decision for what you're bringing back until the spell is resolving.

April 25, 2022 6:42 p.m.