Does Thieves' Auction trigger Landfall?
Asked by SeasOfCheese 7 years ago
I have a question regarding how Omnath, Locus of Rage works with Thieves' Auction.
Let's say I have Omnath in play, and I play Thieves' Auction. I get the first pick, so I pick Omnath. From there, I pick all lands.
One of the official rulings on Thieves' Auction reads: "Triggers from the permanents leaving the battlefield and then being put back onto the battlefield are not put on the stack until the entire effect is done."
With this in mind, if I pick Omnath and then, say, 7 lands. Once all the cards are all chosen, do I get 7 landfall triggers? Or do I not get the landfall trigger due to Omnath and the lands essentially coming into play simultaneously?
My thinking on this is that if I cast Thieves' Auction in my first main phase, and I also have Anger in the graveyard, I'll have a bunch of 5/5's with haste, and all of my opponents' lands and creatures will be tapped.
Thanks!
WillowtheCouncil says... Accepted answer #2
During resolution of the spell, let's say you put Omnath onto the field first.
When a land enters, Omnath 'sees' the land enter, and it triggers his ability. It's just that you don't actually put the triggers onto the stack until the ability finishes resolving. So any lands you put in after Omnath will trigger. If you choose the lands first, and then put down Omnath, then he won't trigger.
Basically, during the resolution of abilities any triggered abilities will trigger, and then after the spell resolves, state based actions will be checked, you can stack triggers, and then SBAs are checked again, and then everyone goes back to playing.
Hope that helps.
ClockworkSwordfish says... #1
Your sneaky combo will indeed work! Permanents that come into play or leave play all at the same time are aware of each other doing the same. For instance, if you play Wrath of God while you have Blood Artist out, your opponent will indeed lose 1 life for each creature in play, despite the fact that the Artist is dying at the same time as the rest of them.
Thus, for each land you would get one landfall trigger put on the stack as Omnath and all of the lands arrive.
April 7, 2018 4:22 p.m.