Can you cast more than one similar instants at once?
Asked by Hanzeru 11 years ago
New MTG player here. For example, you have Fabled Hero attacking during your turn and you have 2 Titan's Strength. Could you cast them both at once?
Thanks in advance for the response.
Also as the last spell on the stack, when Titan's Strength resolves it will cause the Heroic trigger to be placed on the stack, which will then resolve.... Since he starts out at 2/2 then gets targeted by Titan's Strength gets +1/+1. Strength resolves giving +3/+1. Then that all happens again. Meaning you are swinging with a 10/10 with double strike.
March 12, 2014 6:23 a.m.
Blackblade says... #4
to follow up with what -MisterJ- is talking about with the stack, is that to put things plainly nothing happens "at the same time". everything that gets put onto the stack resolves one spell at a time.
March 12, 2014 7:54 a.m.
heroic triggers happen when the spell is cast, not when it resolves. So the trigger would go on the stack and resolve before the spell that triggered it.
March 12, 2014 8:10 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #6
A player can't perform two different actions "simultaneously", but it's perfectly fine to take two actions in a row. The game won't move on to the next step or phase until both players pass over an empty stack, so if you want to pump Fabled Hero before combat damage is dealt then you can cast one Titan's Strength and then either cast the second in response or after the first resolves.
March 12, 2014 9:37 a.m.
Thanks for the response everyone.
I'd like to make a follow up question: So if pumping Fabled Hero twice with Titan's Strength successfully resolves (giving me a 10/10 with double strike), would that mean victory in case my opponent is unable to block/counter it (10 power X 2 strikes = 20)?
-MisterJ- says... #1
You can cast both of them in the stack as long as you can pay from them, and they will resolve on the stack. So lets say you declare attack step and swing with Fabled Hero and in response to him going unblocked you cast Titan's Strength then another. The last one played will resolve first, then the first one played will resolve. So in essence... Yes.
March 12, 2014 6:20 a.m.