Discovering into a Curator of Sun's Creation with one already on the battlefield?
Asked by Bread_my_Butter 2 months ago
Say you have the above scenario, and you cast a Daring Discovery, and flip into another Curator. Will the flipped Curator hit the battlefield before the second discover trigger from the original Curator is able to happen? Allowing you to get another Discover trigger? I'm just not sure how discover (I'm assuming cascade would be similar) works with the stack and all that.
Wait, what? If you cast a spell as part of another spell resolving, it can't go in the stack on top of triggers that trigger from the first spell being cast?
Or is it just that the Curator that's already on the battlefiels doesn't trigger until after you've finished discovering?
August 31, 2025 3:15 p.m.
Yesterday The game makes note whenever a trigger condition occurs and then the ability is actually put on the stack next time the game checks for state based actions / right before the next player would priority (faeries with whiteboards do this). Abilities like Cascade and Discover however put their "discovered" spells on the stack as part of their effects since that's exactly what "casting" a spell does.
August 31, 2025 3:44 p.m.
Yeah, I mean. Damn. Makes perfect sense when it's broken down like that. Just never occured to me.
August 31, 2025 4:41 p.m.
You take all the actions in a spell's text in order during its resolution. This includes casting spells, so since discover casts a spell you immediately put it at the top of the stack while Daring Discovery is resolving.
As capwner said, any triggers the currently resolving effect has satisfied the conditions for wait until state-based actions are checked, which is right before players get priority once the current spell or ability finishes resolving. Triggers are put onto the stack as a state-based action, which means they'll go on top of the spell that was cast by Daring Discovery.
Polaris says... Accepted answer #1
So to start with, no, this doesn't work how you hope.
The sequencing is as follows:
You cast Daring Discovery.
Daring Discovery starts resolving. It affects its target creatures, then discovers 4. Curator of Sun's Creation triggers, but doesn't go on the stack yet.
the discover hits a second Curator of Sun's Creation. You choose to cast it without paying its mana cost, and it goes on the top of the stack.
Daring Discovery finishes resolving and goes to the graveyard.
Curator of Sun's Creation's "when you discover" trigger is now put on the stack (above the second Curator you just discovered).
Curator of Sun's Creation's trigger resolves and discovers 4.
Assuming you found a spell and cast it, it goes on the stack.
Your spell resolves.
Your second Curator of Sun's Creation resolves and enters the battlefield.
August 30, 2025 2:42 p.m.