Cost of sacrificing Blighted Fen
Asked by davidgower100 8 years ago
Hi - my eyes might have being deceiving me but I was watching Eldritch Moon pro tour and a player sacrificed Blighted Fen and he appeared to only pay four extra mana after he tapped the Fen. Does Blighted Fen add mana to it's own cost for sacrifice?Also can Blighted Fen be used in response to the casting of a single bomb like Emrakul the promised end so that the Emrakul does not appear on the battlefield himself - though his effect still resolves?
davidgower100 says... #2
Thanks for the prompt response. That does make perfect sense. I had always previously assumed that Blighted Fen would cost the extra five to cast - it must have been a weird camera angle that made it look like the player didn't tap the required amount of mana.
September 23, 2016 12:32 p.m.
metalmagic says... #3
davidgower100 I believe you need to mark my response as being the correct answer in order for this topic to be moved to the 'answered questions' section.
metalmagic says... Accepted answer #1
No, and no - sort of. Blighted Fen has two separate abilities each that require it tap as the cost to activate. When you tap something as a cost to activate an ability, you only get the ability you choose to activate - not all abilities that have the same activation cost.
As for the second question, you can get the desired effect you described, but not quite in the way you mentioned. If you have a Blighted Fen out and your opponent casts an Emrakul, the Promised End, the triggered ability from Emrakul will go on the stack and resolve before Emrakul herself will. At this point, she is not on the battlefield, so activating your Fen would do nothing. AFTER she resolves though, if she is the only creature your opponent controls, you can do it then to make your opponent sacrifice her, thus leaving them with no creatures in play, but they will still take your next turn since the triggered ability resolves.
Once an ability is activated, it is considered separate from the source. This means that even if you were to counter an Emrakul, the triggered ability would still go on the stack and resolve separately. If an ability ever makes a player 'sacrifice' something, it is ALWAYS from the battlefield, and never from any other zone, such as the stack or the deck.
I hope this explanation helped!
September 23, 2016 3:56 a.m.