Celestial Mantle: Which hits first?
Asked by InDirectX 11 years ago
If you have a creature, say, Felidar Sovereign , with two Spirit Link on it and a Celestial Mantle , what order do the life-gains hit? Assuming you start at 20 life and are not blocked, how much life would you have at the end?
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #2
Lifelink is a static ability that applies simultaneously with damage.
Spirit Link
's ability is a triggered ability.
Celestial Mantle
's ability is a triggered ability.
Whenever multiple triggered abilities have triggered since the last time a player received priority, their controllers put them onto the stack in APNAP order. If a player controls more than one ability, he or she chooses the order in which those abilities are put onto the stack.
This scenario maximizes your lifegain:
- Felidar Sovereign deals combat damage to a player. You gain 7 life from lifelink (27 life total). Two instances of Spirit Link 's ability and one instance of Celestial Mantle 's ability all trigger.
- You put the abilities onto the stack. Celestial Mantle 's ability is put onto the stack first. Then, the two instances of Spirit Link 's ability are put onto the stack.
- The first Spirit Link 's ability resolves, causing you to gain 7 life (34 life total).
- The second Spirit Link 's ability resolves, causing you to gain 7 life (41 life total).
- Celestial Mantle 's ability resolves, doubling your life total (82 life total).
Sam_I_am says... #1
lifelink happens at the exact same time that combat damage happens, and it is applied before state based actions are checked, and it is applied before triggered abilities go onto the stack.
the lifegain effects from both Spirit Link and Celestial Mantle are both triggered abilities, and they would go onto the stack and resolve after combat damage happens, and after you gained life from lifelink.
Since Spirit Link and Celestial Mantle are both triggered abilities, if you control both of them, you can decide which one resolves first, so if you want Spirit Link to resolve before Celestial Mantle than you can do that.
October 18, 2013 3:19 p.m.